How Long to Read Lives of Indian Images

How Long Does it Take to Read Lives of Indian Images?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Lives of Indian Images by Richard H. Davis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries. He shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the only ones to enliven images. Bringing with them differing religious assumptions, political agendas, and economic motivations, others may animate the very same objects as icons of sovereignty, as polytheistic "idols," as "devils," as potentially lucrative commodities, as objects of sculptural art, or as symbols for a whole range of new meanings never foreseen by the images' makers or original worshipers.

How long is Lives of Indian Images?

Lives of Indian Images by Richard H. Davis is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lives of Indian Images Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Lives of Indian Images aloud.

What Reading Level is Lives of Indian Images?

Lives of Indian Images is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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