Living Mantra : Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today / / by Mani Rao
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| Autore: |
Rao Mani
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| Titolo: |
Living Mantra : Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today / / by Mani Rao
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 294.537 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnography |
| Ethnology | |
| Religion and sociology | |
| Social Anthropology | |
| Cultural Anthropology | |
| Religion and Society | |
| Sociology of Religion | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Part 1: Preparation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Mountain of Scholarship -- 3. Crossing Over -- 4. Are there Revelations Today? - Part 2: Fieldwork -- 5. Body-Yantra: Sahasrakshi Meru Temple, Devipuram -- 6. Self-Made: Svayam Siddha Kali Pitham, Guntur -- 7. "I am in Mantra, Mantra is in me": Nachiketa Tapovan, Kodgal -- Part 3 -- 8. Understanding Mantra Again. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India’s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Living Mantra |
| ISBN: | 3-319-96391-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910337724003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion