Religion Under Bureaucracy: Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India

by Franklin A. Presler

Religion under Bureaucracy is an innovative study of religion and politics in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu which focuses on the relationship between the state and the central religious institution of the area, the Hindu temple. Religion, politics, economy and culture intersect in the temple and Tamil Nadu has 52,000 in all, many richly endowed with land and prominent locally as sources of patronage and economic and political power. Dr Presley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521053676
• ISBN13: 9780521053679
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"