Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice - Couverture rigide

Patton, Laurie L.

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ISBN 10 : 0520240871 ISBN 13 : 9780520240872

Editeur : University of California Press, 2005

Synopsis

This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. In Bringing the Gods to Mind, Laurie Patton takes a new look at mantra as "performed poetry" and in five case studies draws a portrait of early Indian sacrifice that moves beyond the well-worn categories of "magic" and "magico-religious" thought in Vedic sacrifice. Treating Vedic mantra as a sophisticated form of artistic composition, she develops the idea of metonymy, or associational thought, as a major motivator for the use of mantra in sacrificial performance. Filling a long-standing gap in our understanding, her book provides a history of the Indian interpretive imagination and a study of the mental creativity and hermeneutic sophistication of Vedic religion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laurie L. Patton is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Early Indian Religion at Emory University. She is author of Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary (1996), editor of Jewels of Authority: Women and Text in the Hindu Tradition (2002), and author of Fire's Goal: Poems from a Hindu Year (2003), among other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520240871
• ISBN 13: 9780520240872
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
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