Projects funded by the NCN
Birla mandirs - the contemporary Hindu temple complexes as an example of modernization by going back to tradition
2013/09/B/HS1/02005
Keywords:
Hindu temple Birla mandir neoadvaitavedanta hindutva universal spirituality artistic patronage philanthropy tolerance inclusivism veda brahman going back to tradition modernization images of gods and saints/ascetics creation of sacred space by implication corporate social responsibility
Descriptors:
- HS1_10: Religion and its background: anthropological, cultural, social and psychological
- HS2_14: Cultural studies (incl. contemporary cultural studies and cultural-anthropological studies)
- HS3_11: Ethnography and cultural anthropology (incl. descriptions of traditional cultures, anthropology of magic, worship and religion, cultural change and global processes, anthropology of socio-cultural, ethnic and identity phenomena)
Panel:
HS1 - Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology
Host institution :
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filozoficzny
woj. małopolskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution):
Number of co-investigators in the project: 5
Call: OPUS 5 - announced on 2013-03-15
Amount awarded: 360 418 PLN
Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-01-31
Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-30
Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status: Project settled