A01=Laurie L. Patton
atharva veda
Author_Laurie L. Patton
bandhu
brahmana
brahmin
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ceremony
chanting
deity
devata
eastern religion
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food studies
grhya
hinduism
hymns
india
indian sacrifice
indic religion
magic
mantra
meditation
metonymy
mindfulness
performance theory
performed poetry
religion
religious belief
religious history
religious poetry
religious practice
rite
ritual
sacrifice
soma
south asia
spirituality
srauta literature
supernatural
tradition
upanisads
vedic
vedic ritual
vidhana
viniyoga
visualization
Product details
- ISBN 9780520240872
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
