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Living Mantra
Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today
Taschenbuch von Mani Rao
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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 21
st
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.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
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: 9783030071844
ISBN-10: 3030071847
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rao, Mani
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Maße: 210 x 148 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Mani Rao
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,311 kg
Artikel-ID: 117386170
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 21
st
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.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
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: 9783030071844
ISBN-10: 3030071847
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rao, Mani
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Maße: 210 x 148 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Mani Rao
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,311 kg
Artikel-ID: 117386170
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