Early Cālukyan temples of Andhra Desa

Chapter 7 examines how temples were constructed and maintained to enable trainees to attain a transcendent spiritual state through monastic discipline and studies of various kinds ...

This chapter studies all the public temples of Fortuna at Rome in the Republican period. The main focal points of the chapter are the precise historical circumstances for the vow, ...

During the first millennium CE, Hindus in India developed a complex and conspicuous set of religious practices and institutions centered on the worship of physical images or icons....