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The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various traditions and historical periods. Through the performance of complex rites designated with the term pranapratishtha (establishment of, or infusion with, life), man-made sculptures are ritually transformed into (receptacles of) deities. The collection is thematically and methodically broad, with a large number of detailed textual studies, but also with ethnographic contributions that discuss contemporary instances of consecration rituals. Among the overarching themes are issues related to historical continuity and change, as well as transformational moments in such rituals. Contributors are: Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret, Marzenna Czerniak-Drozdzowicz, Ronald M. Davidson, Shingo Einoo, Marko Geslani, Dominic Goodall, Ellen Gough, Istvan Keul, Elisabeth Raddock, S.A.S Sarma, Anna A. Slaczka, Annette Wilke.
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• Introduction, by J. S. La Fontaine.--Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth.--Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody.--Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall.--Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R. G. Abrahams.--Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener.--Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J. S. La Fontaine.--The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson.--The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach.--Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott.--The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach.--A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott.--Appendix, by E. Leach.--Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289)

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction / Mika Ahuvia and Alexander Kocar
• Constructing Spaces and Places
• Placing Eden in Second Temple Judaism / Eshbal Ratzon
• Sabbath as City : Rabbinic Urbanism and Imperial Territoriality in Roman Palestine / Gil P. Klein
• In situ : Liturgical Poetry and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity / Ophir Münz-Manor
• Placing People
• A Hierarchy of Salvation in the Book of Revelation : Different Peoples, Dwellings, and Tasks in the End Times / Alexander Kocar
• Directing the Heart : Corporeal Language and the Anatomy of Ritual Space / Rachel R. Neis
• Beyond Eden : Placing Adam, Eve, and Humanity in Byzantine Hymns / Derek Krueger
• Re-Placing Ritual Texts
• 'It is Esrmpe who appeals!' : Place, Object, and Performance in a Quest for Pregnancy in Roman Egypt / David Frankfurter
• 'If you order that I wash my feet, then bring me this ticket' : Encountering Saint Colluthus at Antinoë / AnneMarie Luijendijk
• The Spatial and Social Dynamics of Jewish Babylonian Incantation Bowls / Mika Ahuvia
• List of Contributors
• Subject Index.