LEADER 04283nam 22006495 450 001 996308826803316 005 20210112220802.0 010 $a3-11-051732-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110517323 035 $a(CKB)3800000000210483 035 $a(DE-B1597)473187 035 $a(OCoLC)984521232 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110517323 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5493958 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5493958 035 $a(OCoLC)1049914185 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000210483 100 $a20190615d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmbodying the Vedas $eTraditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra /$fBorayin Larios 210 1$aWarsaw ;$aBerlin : $cDe Gruyter Open Poland, $d[2017] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a3-11-051731-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword / $rLubin, Timothy -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tNote on Sanskrit and Marathi Words -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 Framing the Veda: General Contexts -- $t3 The Vedic Schools in Contemporary Maharashtra -- $t4 Life in the Vedap??ha??l? -- $t5 Mimesis, Habitus, and Embodiment: Becoming a Vedam?rti -- $t6 Preservation or Innovation? Changes in the Transmission of Vedic Identity and Tradition -- $t7 Conclusion -- $tAppendix 1: The Vedic Schools -- $tAppendix 2: The Vik?ti Permutations of the Sa?hit? -- $tAppendix 3: Images and Short Film of the Vedic Schools -- $tGlossary of Commonly Used Terms -- $tBibliography -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tList of Tables -- $tIndex 330 $aPopularly 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. The Vedas have been considered by many as the philosophical cornerstone of the Brahmanical traditions (?stika); even previous to the colonial construction of the concept of "Hinduism." However, what can be pieced together from the Vedic texts is very different from contemporary Hindu religious practices, beliefs, social norms and political realities. This book presents the results of a study of the traditional education and training of Brahmins through the traditional system of education called gurukula as observed in 25 contemporary Vedic schools across the state of Maharasthra. This system of education aims to teach Brahmin males how to properly recite, memorize and ultimately embody the Veda. This book combines insights from ethnographic and textual analysis to unravel how the recitation of the Vedic texts and the Vedic traditions, as well as the identity of the traditional Brahmin in general, are transmitted from one generation to the next in contemporary India. 606 $aBrahmanism$zIndia$zMaharashtra 606 $aHinduism and education$zIndia$zMaharashtra 606 $aHinduism, Vedic Schools, priestly education, Gurukula, Modern India, Ethno-Indology 606 $3(DE-601)104409630$3(DE-588)4053474-1$aSchule$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)10558391X$3(DE-588)4146441-2$aBrahmanismus$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)106076426$3(DE-588)4078752-7$aVedismus$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)106148036$3(DE-588)4058216-4$aStudium$2gnd 606 $aRELIGION / Hinduism / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aHinduism, Vedic Schools, priestly education, Gurukula, Modern India, Ethno-Indology. 615 0$aBrahmanism 615 0$aHinduism and education 615 4$aHinduism, Vedic Schools, priestly education, Gurukula, Modern India, Ethno-Indology. 615 7$aSchule 615 7$aBrahmanismus 615 7$aVedismus 615 7$aStudium 615 7$aRELIGION / Hinduism / General. 676 $a294.5/921071 700 $aLarios$b Borayin, $0978194 702 $aLubin$b Timothy, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996308826803316 996 $aEmbodying the Vedas$92229169 997 $aUNISA