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Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 268pp., 13 contributions, footnotes, bibliographical notes, general bibliography, index. CONTENTS: 1. Andrew Palmer: King Abgar of Edessa, Eusebius and Constantine. 2. Martin Gosman: The Cult of Saint James at Santiago de Compostela. 3. Herman Beck: Sultan Isma’il and the Veneration of Idris I at Mawlay Idris in the Djabal Zarhun. 4. J.C. Heesterman: Centres and Fires. 5. Hans Bakker: Throne and Temple. Political Power and Religious Prestige in Vidarbha. 6. André Wink: Kanauj as the Religious and Political Capital of Early Medieval India. 7. Georg Berkemer: The ‘ Centre out There ‘ as State Archive. The Temple of Simhacalam. 8. Herman Kulke: Ksetra and Ksatra. The Cult of Jagannatha of Puri and the ‘ Royal Letters ‘ of the Rajas of Khurda. 9. Lourens P. van den Bosch: Pilgrimage, Prestige and Protest. On the Orogin of Recent Sati Temples in India. 10. Burton Stein: The Politicized Temples of Southern India. 11. D. Shulman & V. Narayana Roa: Marriage-Broker for the God. The Tanjavur Nayakas and the Mannarkuti Temple. 12. C.J. Fuller: The Political and Economic Position of the Minaksi Temple Priests in 1980s. 13. Ganarath Obeyesekere: Myth ans Political Legistomization at the Sacred Centre in Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Very fine copy – as new [Still shrink-wrapped]. Volume 6: Groningen Oriental Studies.