Leslie Orr, Concordia University

Research

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Latest funding

South Indian Inscriptions: Media, Messages, and Mobilizations
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$58,631
Renovation, replication, recovery, and revival: building temples and building histories in south India
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$49,074
De-centering and re-membering the South Indian Temple
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$64,960

All 6 grants and awards

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South Indian Inscriptions: Media, Messages, and Mobilizations

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Orr, Leslie

Keywords: (1) epigraphy; (2) Tamilnadu; (3) India; (4) inscriptions; (5) temples; (6) history and memory; (7) writing and monuments; (8) medieval; (9) scribes; (10) reception history

$58,631

Renovation, replication, recovery, and revival: building temples and building histories in south India

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Orr, Leslie C.

Keywords: historiography of India; history of Indian religions; Hindu temple; renovation and restoration; architectural history; temple inscriptions

$49,074

De-centering and re-membering the South Indian Temple

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Orr, Leslie C.

Keywords: social and ritual space; temple architecture; deities; Hinduism; Jainism; Saivism; Vaisnavism; Tamilnadu; sectarianism; memory; revivalism; reform; Tamil identity; inscriptions; Indian art

$64,960

Disruption, destruction and restoration: memory and the politics of religion in Medieval South India

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Orr, Leslie C.

Keywords: disruption; destruction and restoration of Jain and Hindu sacred sites and images; desecration; communal violence; memory; narrative literature; sectarian rivalry; hagiography; inscriptions; temple traditions; Tamilnadu

$66,179

Singing, strumming, drumming, dancing: performers as symbols of identity in the social and religious histories of South India

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Young, Katherine K.

Keywords: Tamilnadu; drummers; yal players; dancers; singers; language dominance and cultural change; migration as a bidirectional process; meta-narratives of identity; syncretism; displacement; caste; Brahmins; women; texts; inscriptions; Saivism; Vaisnavism

$92,499

Temple and society in place; the making of environment; sacred space; and community in medieval Tamilnadu

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Orr, Leslie

Keywords: religious and regional identity; ritual and urban space; ecology and society; religious interaction; networks; temple architecture

$31,658

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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