This paper will first discuss the category of \u2018temple town\u2019 and \u2018temple
urbanism and temple urbanization\u2019 in South India as presented in the historical research and try to understand the viability of such phrases\/terms as typologies for understanding religion and urbanity. Secondly, it will explore the development of Srirangam as an urban centre around a single cultic focus of the Ranganathasvami temple. An attempt will be made to analyse the processes through which the temple became the centre of diffusion not only for religious ideas and Srivaishnava community identities, but also of societal and political aspects of urbanism and urbanity that influenced its character and settlement patterns in the early modern period, from the fourteenth to eighteenth century CE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This paper will first discuss the category of \u2018temple town\u2019 and \u2018temple urbanism and temple urbanization\u2019 in South India as presented in the historical research and try to understand the viability of such phrases\/terms as typologies for understanding religion and urbanity. Secondly, it will explore the development of Srirangam as an urban centre around a … „Ranjeeta Dutta is going to present a working paper on ‚\u2018Temple Town\u2019 as a Typology for Understanding Religion and Urbanity: The Case of Srirangam in Early Modern South India‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[351,347,349,348,350],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}