El camino a Emaús : Un curso auto-didáctico basado en la película, el camino a Emaús by Multi-Language Publications of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (2011, Trade Paperback)
This book is the first to describe in detail a community of potters working for the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, and to explore how the role of temple servant affects the potters' understanding of their work and of themselves. As a pilgrimage centre of national importance, supported by the patronage of successive regional dynasties and by fervent popular belief, the Jagannatha Temple requires earthenware in great quantities for the creation and distribution of the sacred food that is an integral feature of daily ritual and pilgrimage. Three hundred potters participate as temple servants in maintaining the temple's ritual cycle by performing their divinely assigned task. This study, conducted in 1979-1981, observes the potters' technical prowess, sustained by devotion, but also examines the tensions within their relationships to more powerful temple servants and authorities. The role of the potter as temple servant is at once glorious, as demonstrated by texts and personal interpretations of the potters' divinely-appointed service, and pathetic, as shown in the brutality of caste-based hierarchy and cash-based exchange penetrating the modern temple's daily operations.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Multi-Language Publications-Wels
ISBN-10
1931891281
ISBN-13
9781931891288
eBay Product ID (ePID)
126150999
Product Key Features
Book Title
camino a Emaús : Un curso auto-didáctico basado en la película, el camino a Emaús
Author
Multi-Language Publications of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
Spanish
Topic
General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Religion
Number of Pages
83 Pages
Additional Product Features
Adapted by
Multi-Language Publications of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Illustrated by
Myers, Glenn
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Produced by
Multi-Language Publications of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod