Public Engagement and Personal Desires: BAPS Swaminarayan Temples and their Contribution to the Discourses on Religion
@article{Kim2009PublicEA, title={Public Engagement and Personal Desires: BAPS Swaminarayan Temples and their Contribution to the Discourses on Religion}, author={Hanna H. Kim}, journal={International Journal of Hindu Studies}, year={2009}, volume={13}, pages={357-390} }
On an especially warm weekend in late May 2008, thousands of people stood under the mid-day sun, with no shade tree in sight, and waited for their chance to enter the elaborately carved Swaminarayan Temple before them. The sun appeared to dance on the temple’s fully carved exterior, placing in bright relief the threedimensional designs on the temple base, the domes, archways, and spires. The visitors, who could be overheard speaking languages as varied as Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, and…
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