Bringing the Gods to Mind,9780520240872

Bringing the Gods to Mind

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ISBN13: 9780520240872
ISBN10: 0520240871
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-06-30
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. InBringing the Gods to Mind,Laurie Patton takes a new look at mantra as "performed poetry" and in five case studies draws a portrait of early Indian sacrifice that moves beyond the well-worn categories of "magic" and "magico-religious" thought in Vedic sacrifice. Treating Vedic mantra as a sophisticated form of artistic composition, she develops the idea of metonymy, or associational thought, as a major motivator for the use of mantra in sacrificial performance. Filling a long-standing gap in our understanding, her book provides a history of the Indian interpretive imagination and a study of the mental creativity and hermeneutic sophistication of Vedic religion.

Author Biography

Laurie L. Patton is Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Early Indian Religion at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(14)
PART ONE: THE THEORIES
1. Poetry, Ritual, and Associational Thought in Early India: The Sources
15(23)
2. Poetry, Ritual, and Associational Thought in Early India: The Theories
38(21)
3. Viniyoga: The Recovery of a Hermeneutic Principle
59(32)
PART TWO: THE CASE STUDIES
4. Fire, Light, and Ingesting over Time
91(26)
5. The Vedic "Other": Spoilers of Success
117(25)
6. A History of the Quest for Mental Power
142(10)
7. The Poetics of Paths: Mantras of Journeys
152(16)
8. A Short History of Heaven: From Making to Gaining the Highest Abode
168(14)
Conclusions: Laughter and the Creeper Mantra 182(15)
Notes 197(40)
Glossary 237(12)
Bibliography 249(26)
Index Locorum 275(6)
Index Nominum 281(2)
General Index 283

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