Temples, Texts, and Networks
Ambach, Malini / Buchholz, Jonas / Hüsken, Ute
For many centuries, Hindu temples and shrines have been of great importance to
South Indian religious, social and political life. Aside from being places of
worship, they are also pilgrimage destinations, centres of learning, political
hotspots, and foci of economic activities. In these tem-ples, not only the human and
the divine interact, but they are also meeting places of different members of the
communities, be they local or coming fr...