... them, temples create economic and political power, and social and ritual status. Trustees in the larger temples are oftenprominent landlords, former rajahs and zamindars and other localnotables. ... authority, functions and prerogatives of priests, trustees and other personnel; the effort to standardize temple landholdings and landuse; and the effort to establish a central ecclesiastical organizationdirected ... East and LatinAmerica, and the "developed" world of Europe and North America, and involving all the great religious traditions: Islam, Hinduism,Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and...