RT Book
T1 Religion under bureaucracy: policy and administration for Hindu temples in South India
T2 Cambridge South Asian studies
A1 Presler, Franklin A.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1987
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883369400
AB Religion under Bureaucracy is an innovative study of religion and politics in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu which focuses on the relationship between the state and the central religious institution of the area, the Hindu temple. Religion, politics, economy and culture intersect in the temple and Tamil Nadu has 52,000 in all, many richly endowed with land and prominent locally as sources of patronage and economic and political power. Dr Presley examines the institutional challenge that Hindu temples have presented to the developing South Indian state over the last century and a half and the ways in which a government publicly committed to non-intervention in religious matters has come to involve itself deeply in temple life - establishing a presence in temple management, regulating the use of the temple's material and symbolic resources and, beyond this, seeking to control many details of Hindu organisation, economy and worship.
OP 179
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BL1153.7.S68
SN 978-0-511-55772-9
K1 Hindu temples : India, South.
K1 Hinduism : India, South : Government.
K1 Hinduism : India, South : Government
K1 Hindu temples : India, South
K1 Hinduism and state
K1 Hindu temples ; India, South
K1 Hinduism ; India, South ; Government
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511557729