"Hindu sculpture." . . "American Council of Learned Societies." . . "Princeton University Press." . . "Arte y antropología India." . . "hindouisme image religieuse." . . "arts sculpture Hinduism religion." . . "Plastische kunst." . . "Escultura India." . . "Götter." . . "Plastik Motiv Götter indische." . . . . "Gods, Hindu, in art Methodology 20th century Case studies Bombay." . . "Arts." . . "Arts" . "Hindu gods in art." . . "Escultura hindú." . . "divinités indiennes sculpture indienne." . . "Art and anthropology." . . "Art and anthropology Methodology 20th century Case studies India." . . "Götter indische Motiv Plastik." . . "Rzeźba hinduska." . . "Art." . . "Hinduismus." . . "Sculpture, Hindu Methodology 20th century Case studies Bombay." . . "Gottesdarstellung." . . "Art and anthropology India." . . "Kunst." . . "Gods, Hindu, in art." . . "India Religion." . . "Godenbeelden." . . "Sztuka i antropologia Indie." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual \"establishment\" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely in reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries." . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "Lives of Indian Images" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "ACLS Humanities E-Book" . . . "Lives of indian images" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Llibres electrònics" . . . . "Lives of Indian images" . "Lives of Indian images"@en . . . . "Kult Indien." . . "Art et anthropologie." . . "Sculpture hindoue." . . "Hindoeïsme." . . "Hinduistische Kunst." . . "India." . . "India" . "Bogowie hinduscy w sztuce." . . "Sculpture, Hindu." . . "Dieux hindous Dans l'art." . .