The Hindu pañcāyatanapūjā in the aniconism spectrum
The Hindu pañcāyatanapūjā is the worship of five deities that can be in the form of five stones collected from various locations in South Asia. Each of these stones has visual properties which form points of reference to the iconography of the same gods’ anthropomorphic forms. And although the ritua...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2017]
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Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 503-519 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pāñcāyatana-Pūjā
/ Cultic stone
/ Image prohibition
/ Iconic element
/ Anthropomorphism
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism |
| Further subjects: | B
Aniconism
B Material Religion B visual religion B iconism B Smārtism B Hinduism B Anthropomorphism |
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