| FT-55216-07 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Richard H. Davis | The Art of the Procession: Ritual and Display in Festivals of the Goddess Minakshi | 6/1/2007 - 7/31/2007 | $5,000.00 | Richard | H. | Davis | | | | Bard College | Annandale-on-Hudson | NY | 12504-9800 | USA | 2007 | Nonwestern Religion | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I request an NEH Summer Stipend for work in India on a project entitled “The Art of the Procession: Ritual and Display in Festivals of the Goddess Minaksi.” In this project I examine South Indian bronze images, seen in the West as museum works of sculpture, in their broader religious context as festival icons (utsavamurti) to be paraded in temple processions. I wish to examine more closely the ways in which images are displayed by temple priests and received by Hindu audiences in such a religious setting. I focus on the ceremonies of a single well-known temple, the Minaksi-Sundaresvara temple in Madurai, Tamilnad. |