Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice by Patton, Laurie L.

Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520240872)

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Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice by Patton, Laurie L.

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

$85.00
Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice by Patton, Laurie L.

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

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Laurie L. Patton
ISBN-10: 0520240871
ISBN-13: 9780520240872
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2005
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.34w x 1.02d
By Laurie L. Patton
By Laurie L. Patton
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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.

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