Mani Rao: Living Mantra | Buch

Cover: 9783319963907 | Living Mantra | Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today | Rao

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Beschreibung

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 Indiäs 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.

Über den Autor

Mani Rao, PhD, is a poet and independent scholar. She has nine poetry books and two books in translation from Sanskrit including The Bhagavad Gita and Kalidasa for the 21st Century Reader. See [...] for links and updates.

Zusammenfassung

An intellectual journey through mantra practice at three Goddess-centered mantra communities in Andhra-Telangana, India

Combines narrative, autoethnography, and recent scholarship to paint a full picture of mantra as lived experience

Reinterprets mantra in the light of fieldwork to bring a new understanding of mantra to anthropological and religious scholarship

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Inhalt:	xix 215 S. 2 s/w Illustr. 10 farbige Illustr. 215 p. 12 illus. 10 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319963907
ISBN-10:	3319963902
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-96390-7
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Rao, Mani
Auflage:	1st ed. 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Maße:	216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Mani Rao
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2018
Gewicht:	0,423 kg

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