The domain of constant excess: plural worship at the Munnesvaram temples in Sri Lanka/
Rohan Bastin
- New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
- xxiii, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Ch. 1. Worship, Difference and Marvellous Potentiality -- Ch. 2. Fluidity and Ambiguity in the History of Munnesvaram -- Ch. 3. Myths and Marginality -- Ch. 4. Ritual Practices and Religious Identity -- Ch. 5. The Saivite Temple as a Monumental Architecture -- Ch. 6. 'The Look and the Thing Seen': Puja and Arccanai -- Ch. 7. The Presence of Sakti -- Ch. 8. Guardians, Games and the Formation of Power -- Ch. 9. The World Inside Out -- Ch. 10. The Domain of Excess -- Ch. 11. Divine Kings and Regal Gods: Temples in Society and History.