Dossier CF/4 - Publications on Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple and its priests

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This file contains published articles written by Christopher Fuller on the Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple and its priests, including:

• Typed manuscript of 'Royal Divinity and Human Kingship in the Festivals of a South Indian Temple', published in South Asian Social Scientist, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1985 (Note: the donor deposited the manuscript version as he has noted that the published version contains editorial errors).
• 'The Navaratri festival in Madurai', by C. J. Fuller and Penny Logan, published in Bulletin of SOAS, Vol. XLVIII, Part 1, 1985.
• 'The King, the law and the priests in a South Indian Temple', published in Puruṣārtha No. 8, 1985.
• 'Brahman Temple Priests and Hindu Revivalism in Contemporary Tamilnadu', published in South Indian Studies No. 1, 1996.
• 'Orality, Literacy and Memorization: Priestly Education in Contemporary South India', published in Modern Asian Studies Vol. 35, No. 1, 2001.
• 'The renovation ritual in a south Indian temple: the 1995 kumbhabhiseka in the Minaksi Temple, Madurai', published in Bulletin of SOAS, Vol. 67, No. 1, 2004.

The Library also holds copies of three books by Christopher Fuller:

• Servants of the goddess: the priests of a south Indian temple (1984)
• The camphor flame: popular Hinduism and society in India (1992)
• The renewal of the priesthood: modernity and traditionalism in a South Indian temple (2003)