Ascetics and Brahmins : studies in ideologies and institutions / / Patrick Olivelle [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Olivelle Patrick
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 294.5447
• Soggetto topico: Asceticism - Hinduism
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction to renunciation in the Hindu traditions -- The Ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity -- Village vs. wilderness: Ascetic ideals and the Hindu world -- A definition of world renunciation -- From feast to fast: food and the Indian Ascetic -- The beast and the Ascetic: the wild in the Indian religious imagination -- Deconstruction of the body in Indian Asceticism -- Contributions to the semantic history of saṃnyāsa -- The semantic history of āśrama -- Renunciation in the Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads -- Odes of renunciation -- Ritual suicide and the rite of renunciation -- The renouncer's staff: triviṣṭabdha, tridaṇḍa, and ekadaṇḍa -- Pañcamāśramavidhi: rite for becoming a naked Ascetic -- Ānandatīrtha's Saṃnyāsapaddhati: a handbook for Madhvaite Ascetics -- Renouncer and renunciation in the Dharmaśāstras -- King and Ascetic: state control of Asceticism in the Arthaśāstra.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
• Altri titoli varianti: Ascetics & Brahmins
• Titolo autorizzato: Ascetics and brahmins
• ISBN: 1-280-49092-6; 9786613586155; 1-84331-802-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461186003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural, historical and textual studies of religions.