Temple in Society
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- ISBN 9780931464386
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 1988
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of studies had its origin in the Burdick-Vary Symposium of 1986, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The symposium, sponsored jointly by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Hebrew Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focused on the topic of the social role of temples in society. Participants presented the role of the temple in Sumer, Japan, the Far East, the Near East, Europe, and Meso-America. Together they sought to determine whether the temple as an institution was a single such entity, meeting fundamental human needs in similar ways throughout history, or whether the temples of various cultures are similar only in the fact that English uses the same word to refer to them.
