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Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice

Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice

Patton, Laurie L.

Hardcover

Hinduism

ISBN10: 0520240871
ISBN13: 9780520240872
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jun 27 2005
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. In Bringing 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.

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