1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396731403316

Autore

Payne Henry Neville <fl. 1672-1710.>

Titolo

The persecutor expos'd [[electronic resource] ] : in reflections, by way of reply, to an ill-bred answer to the D. of B's paper / / written by Henry Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J.L. for the author, 1685

Descrizione fisica

[8], 46 p

Soggetti

Freedom of religion - England - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains errors in paging.

Copy at reel 1752:2 is a replacement for imperfect copy at reel 1038:16.

Reproduction of originals in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York, and Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454517503321

Autore

Prasad Leela

Titolo

Poetics of conduct [[electronic resource] ] : oral narrative and moral being in a South Indian town / / Leela Prasad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-283-00833-5

9786613008336

0-231-51127-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

294.50954/87

Soggetti

Narrative poetry, Kannada - Moral and ethical aspects - India - Sringeri

Folk literature, Kannada - Moral and ethical aspects - India - Sringeri

Hindu ethics - India - Sringeri

Electronic books.

Sringeri (India) Religious life and customs

Sringeri (India) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; 1. Sringeri: Place and Placeness; 2. Connectedness and Reciprocity: Historicizing Sringeri Upachara; 3. Shastra: Divine Injunction and Earthly Custom; 4. "The Shastras Say . . . ": Idioms of Legitimacy and the "Imagined Text"; 5. In the Courtyard of Dharma, Not at the Village Square: Delivering Ashirvada in Sringeri; 6. Edifying Lives, Discerning Proprieties: Conversational Stories and Moral Being; Ethics, an Imagined Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a decade of her ethnographic research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India, where for centuries a vibrant local culture has flourished alongside a tradition of monastic authority. Oral narratives and the seeing-and-doing



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