Embodying the Vedas : Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra

Embodying the Vedas Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra

Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world's oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750-1200 BCE....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Larios, Borayin, author (author), Lubin, Timothy, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter 2017
[2017]
Materias:
Brahmanism > India > Maharashtra.
Hinduism and education > India > Maharashtra.
Hinduism, Vedic Schools, priestly education, Gurukula, Modern India, Ethno-Indology.
Schule
Brahmanismus
Vedismus
Studium
RELIGION / Hinduism / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Lubin, Timothy
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Sanskrit and Marathi Words
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Framing the Veda: General Contexts
  • 3 The Vedic Schools in Contemporary Maharashtra
  • 4 Life in the Vedapāṭhaśālā
  • 5 Mimesis, Habitus, and Embodiment: Becoming a Vedamūrti
  • 6 Preservation or Innovation? Changes in the Transmission of Vedic Identity and Tradition
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: The Vedic Schools
  • Appendix 2: The Vikṛti Permutations of the Saṃhitā
  • Appendix 3: Images and Short Film of the Vedic Schools
  • Glossary of Commonly Used Terms
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Index

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