Time in India: Concepts & Practices - Couverture rigide

Malinar, Angelika

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8173047138 ISBN 13 : 9788173047138

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2007

Synopsis

Thinking about notions of time in India still evokes images of circles and wheels symbolising the fading away of collective and individual histories into the repetitious, cyclical movement of cosmic death and rebirth. However, time is perceived and reckoned in India in many different ways mirrored in a wide spectrum of philosophical and theological interpretations, methods of calculation, mythological narratives and ritual performances. The richness of concepts and practices shows the concern for different dimensions of the experience of time in Indian cultures. The interplay between time as quality and quantity persists in many aspects of social life in India and has not been replaced by the advent of modern standardisations. Thus, ritual calendars and the concern for auspicious or inauspicious moments co-exist with other methods of time reckoning. Such as the digital clock or dynastic eras. The essays collected in this volume highlight this multiplicity by studying both notions and practices of time in relation to the different contexts in which they are enacted. Scholars from different disciplines address these topics with regard to history, religion, methods of time-reckoning, festivals, life-cycle rituals kinship and modern historiography. The essays deal with both, pan-Indian notions and traditions located in Orissa. While there are some distinct features that relate to Orissa in particular, the regional and local traditions often draw on conceptual frameworks used in other parts of the subcontinent too.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Angelika Malinar is Lecturer in Hinduism at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interest are Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. Hindu monasticism, Yoga and Samkhya. She is the author of Rajavidya: Das Konigliche Wissen un Herrschaft and Verzicht, Studien zur Bhagavadgita (1996) and co-editor of Charisma and Canon: Essays in the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent (2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8173047138
• ISBN 13: 9788173047138
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible