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The Contemporary Hindu Temple

The Contemporary Hindu Temple

New Faculty Book: Shriya Sridharan Writes About Hindu Temples

Art historian Shriya Sridharan, co-edited a book titled "The Contemporary Hindu Temple, Fragments for a History."

Shriya Sridharan has co-edited a book titled The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History with Marg Publications. Sridharan also contributed an essay to the volume, which is coming out in June 2019. This book takes the contemporary as a moment in which historic structures, modern renovations, evolving religiosities, and new design and construction practices intersect and converge. By focusing on a variety of structures, large and small, on expansive forms of encroachment, and on incremental acts of negotiation and seemingly insignificant processes, small feelings and pieties, this book nuances and expands our understanding of the Hindu temple today.

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