Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Agency of ornaments : identity, protection, and auspiciousness -- Saris and turmeric : performativity of the material guise -- Material abundance and material excess : creating and serving two goddesses -- Expanding shrines, changing architecture : from protector to protected goddesses -- Standing in cement : Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains -- Afterword: Returning to material acts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Initiation and Assassination Rituals in the Assassin's Creed Game Series -- Lambling Baka: Immanence, Rituals, and Sacred Objects in an Unwritten Legend in Alor -- When Children Participate in the Death Ritual of a Parent: Funerary Photographs as Mnemonic Objects -- The Ritualizing of the Martial and Benevolent Side of Ravana in Two Annual Rituals at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka -- On the Xiapu Ritual Manual Mani the Buddha of Light -- Influences of Egyptian Lotus Symbolism and Ritualistic Practices on Sacral Tree Worship in the Fertile Crescent from 1500 BCE to 200 CE -- Continuity and Discontinuity in 17th- and 18th-Century Ecclesiastical Silverworks from the Southern Andes -- Prayers of Cow Dung: Women Sculpturing Fertile Environments in Rural Rajasthan (India) -- Bare Feet and Sacred Ground: "Visnu Was Here"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Desire and Passion Ride to War (Unknown Artist): Selector’s Note -- 10. Ravana Visits Sita at Night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban’s Tamil Ramayana: Translator’s Note and Text -- 11. …”

“…La historia del príncipe Rāma, avatar del dios Visnu, de cómo fue desterrado del reino de Ayodhyā y arrojado al bosque junto a su bella consorte Sītā, y de cómo ésta fue raptada por el malvado Rāvana y conducida a la otra orilla del océano para ser rescatada más tarde por su marido en compañía del sabio rey mono Sugrīva y de su sabio consejero Hanumān, constituye una de las fuentes épicas más importantes para comprender el sentido moral y espiritual de la India. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Davis Desire and passion ride to war (unknown artist) : selector's note Pillars of love : a dialogic reading of temple sculpture / Anna Lise Seastrand Side observation of a small portion of Varadaraja-svami Temple / Tawfiq Da'adli Ravana visits Sita at night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana : translator's note and text Kamban's Tamil as a kind of Sanskrit / Whitney Cox Can darkness stand before light? …”