Elizabeth A Cecil
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1441772 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth A Cecil |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth A |
| APELLIDO | Cecil |
| FIRMA | CECIL E A |
| AFILIACIONES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9205-4916 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Venerated Stones and Eagle Banners
This study contributes to the spatial and material contextualization of early Narayana religion by revisiting important archaeological sites and epigraphic sources from the first and second centuries bce. It explores some of the ways in which the literary formulations of Vaisnava divinities and theologies were materialized and venerated by those individuals who identified themselves as devotees of Bhagavat (Bhagavatas)—a title used in epigraphic …
Moving Mountains and Swallowing Seas
The worship of Śiva in early South and Southeast Asia offered devotees a fully realized “religious ecology,” i.e., a system of mutually beneficial relationships between human communities, natural systems, and the nonhuman or more-than-human worlds in which they operated. Within this religious worldview, the Śaiva guru functioned as a critical terrestrial intermediary. In canonical early Śaiva texts, the guru was celebrated as an ecological agent …
A Forgotten Family Portrait
Ancient Daśapura was the site of an internally complex Śaiva religious community. The Aulikara rulers used Śaivism as a political idiom to celebrate military might and royal power. Their ministers, the Naigamas, promoted an irenic vision that praised Śiva as a source of protection and prosperity. Attention to those expressions of Śaivism enable us to contextualize one of Daśapura's most famous, yet enigmatic, works of art: an ithyphallic male fig…
Kāma at the Kadamba Court
In March 1971, B.R. Gopal discovered a partially buried pillar with visible inscribed writing in the village of Guḍnāpur in Karnataka. The monument has since become known as the Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman (ca. 465–500 CE ) after the ruler of the early Kadamba kingdom who commissioned it. The inscription preserves a compelling historical record that details the intersections of religious and political performance at the Kadamba cour…
Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’
To show how kingship was enacted and materialised in specific contexts within the ‘Gupta Ecumene’, writ large, this article presents a detailed analysis of two sites that served as centres for political performance, devotional practice, and artistic production between the fourth and the sixth century CE: Eran and Sondhni in the Indian heartland of Madhya Pradesh. Eran is commonly held to be a key site for the study of Gupta art and architecture a…
Jayati Bhagavāñ Jinendraḥ
In the fifth-sixth century CE the rulers of the Kadamba dynasty claimed the town of Halsi (ancient Palāśikā) in modern Karnataka as the northern capital of their expanding polity. Their investments in this locale are recorded in a corpus of copper-plate inscriptions spanning four generation of kings. The plates record the growth of a thriving Jain community at Palāśikā and are revelatory of their relationships with the Kadamba rulers and their ag…
Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia
The contributions to this book address a series of ‘confrontations’—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses ‘confrontation’ a…
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
Stone inscriptions, manuscripts, monuments, sculptures, ceramic fragments: these are just some of the primary sources for the study of premodern Asia. How might scholars chart new directions in Asian studies following these historical traces of past societies and polities? To address this question, this book unites perspectives from leading scholars and emerging voices in the fields of archaeology, art history, philology, and cultural history to …
Columns in Context
The inscribed stone column gained particular popularity in early India as media for political self-styling and religious merit-making in the territories of the Gupta rulers and their successors. Analysis of the textual semantics of the inscriptions has, thus far, dominated the study of the columns, leaving the significance of the visual language and the material semantics of these objects unexplored. Monolithic in form, but certainly not in funct…
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
The early Skandapurāṇa maps the origins of the Pāśupata tradition. Framed by a series of narrative episodes that eulogise the Śaiva terra sancta writ large, the text’s authors designate a small region of northwest India as the ‘Pāśupata landscape’, a salvific region celebrated as the birthplace of the Pāśupata movement. It was here that Śiva assumed a human form and disseminated the Pāśupata doctrine via four students, each of whom presided over …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle, edited by Steven E. Lindquist. Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of Religions; New York: Anthem Press, 2011. 392 pp., £60 (pb). ISBN 978-1-78308-067-0 (pb)
Seeking the ‘Lord with a Club’
As the emblem of Pāśupata identity, representations of the deified teacher called Lakulīśa (the ‘Lord with a Club’) became a prominent feature of the expanding Śaiva religious landscape in early medieval northwest India. This study works to recover some of Lakulīśa’s historical contingency by reading his appearance in both text and image as a reflection of or response to particular concerns of the developing Śaiva religious community. The signifi…
Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’
To show how kingship was enacted and materialised in specific contexts within the ‘Gupta Ecumene’, writ large, this article presents a detailed analysis of two sites that served as centres for political performance, devotional practice, and artistic production between the fourth and the sixth century CE: Eran and Sondhni in the Indian heartland of Madhya Pradesh. Eran is commonly held to be a key site for the study of Gupta art and architecture a…
Columns in Context
The inscribed stone column gained particular popularity in early India as media for political self-styling and religious merit-making in the territories of the Gupta rulers and their successors. Analysis of the textual semantics of the inscriptions has, thus far, dominated the study of the columns, leaving the significance of the visual language and the material semantics of these objects unexplored. Monolithic in form, but certainly not in funct…
Seeking the ‘Lord with a Club’
As the emblem of Pāśupata identity, representations of the deified teacher called Lakulīśa (the ‘Lord with a Club’) became a prominent feature of the expanding Śaiva religious landscape in early medieval northwest India. This study works to recover some of Lakulīśa’s historical contingency by reading his appearance in both text and image as a reflection of or response to particular concerns of the developing Śaiva religious community. The signifi…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle, edited by Steven E. Lindquist. Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of Religions; New York: Anthem Press, 2011. 392 pp., £60 (pb). ISBN 978-1-78308-067-0 (pb)
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
The early Skandapurāṇa maps the origins of the Pāśupata tradition. Framed by a series of narrative episodes that eulogise the Śaiva terra sancta writ large, the text’s authors designate a small region of northwest India as the ‘Pāśupata landscape’, a salvific region celebrated as the birthplace of the Pāśupata movement. It was here that Śiva assumed a human form and disseminated the Pāśupata doctrine via four students, each of whom presided over …
Columns in Context
The inscribed stone column gained particular popularity in early India as media for political self-styling and religious merit-making in the territories of the Gupta rulers and their successors. Analysis of the textual semantics of the inscriptions has, thus far, dominated the study of the columns, leaving the significance of the visual language and the material semantics of these objects unexplored. Monolithic in form, but certainly not in funct…
Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia
The contributions to this book address a series of ‘confrontations’—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses ‘confrontation’ a…
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
Stone inscriptions, manuscripts, monuments, sculptures, ceramic fragments: these are just some of the primary sources for the study of premodern Asia. How might scholars chart new directions in Asian studies following these historical traces of past societies and polities? To address this question, this book unites perspectives from leading scholars and emerging voices in the fields of archaeology, art history, philology, and cultural history to …
Kāma at the Kadamba Court
In March 1971, B.R. Gopal discovered a partially buried pillar with visible inscribed writing in the village of Guḍnāpur in Karnataka. The monument has since become known as the Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman (ca. 465–500 CE ) after the ruler of the early Kadamba kingdom who commissioned it. The inscription preserves a compelling historical record that details the intersections of religious and political performance at the Kadamba cour…
Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’
To show how kingship was enacted and materialised in specific contexts within the ‘Gupta Ecumene’, writ large, this article presents a detailed analysis of two sites that served as centres for political performance, devotional practice, and artistic production between the fourth and the sixth century CE: Eran and Sondhni in the Indian heartland of Madhya Pradesh. Eran is commonly held to be a key site for the study of Gupta art and architecture a…
Jayati Bhagavāñ Jinendraḥ
In the fifth-sixth century CE the rulers of the Kadamba dynasty claimed the town of Halsi (ancient Palāśikā) in modern Karnataka as the northern capital of their expanding polity. Their investments in this locale are recorded in a corpus of copper-plate inscriptions spanning four generation of kings. The plates record the growth of a thriving Jain community at Palāśikā and are revelatory of their relationships with the Kadamba rulers and their ag…
A Forgotten Family Portrait
Ancient Daśapura was the site of an internally complex Śaiva religious community. The Aulikara rulers used Śaivism as a political idiom to celebrate military might and royal power. Their ministers, the Naigamas, promoted an irenic vision that praised Śiva as a source of protection and prosperity. Attention to those expressions of Śaivism enable us to contextualize one of Daśapura's most famous, yet enigmatic, works of art: an ithyphallic male fig…
Venerated Stones and Eagle Banners
This study contributes to the spatial and material contextualization of early Narayana religion by revisiting important archaeological sites and epigraphic sources from the first and second centuries bce. It explores some of the ways in which the literary formulations of Vaisnava divinities and theologies were materialized and venerated by those individuals who identified themselves as devotees of Bhagavat (Bhagavatas)—a title used in epigraphic …
Moving Mountains and Swallowing Seas
The worship of Śiva in early South and Southeast Asia offered devotees a fully realized “religious ecology,” i.e., a system of mutually beneficial relationships between human communities, natural systems, and the nonhuman or more-than-human worlds in which they operated. Within this religious worldview, the Śaiva guru functioned as a critical terrestrial intermediary. In canonical early Śaiva texts, the guru was celebrated as an ecological agent …
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