Soul and Self in Vedic India
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54599-1 (ISBN)
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1 “Souls” in Vedic Indian Beliefs
2 The Purpose of the Study
3 The Concept of “Soul” in the Study of Religion
4 Towards a Working Definition of “Soul”
2 Approaching the Sources
1 The Material
2 Previous Research on Vedic Soul-Conceptions
3 Notes on Methodology
4 Structure of the Study
Part 1: General Background
3 Afterlife, Person, and Soul in Pre-Upaniṣadic Vedic Thought
1 The Vedic Concept of the Person
2 The Earliest Conceptions of the Afterlife
3 Later Vedic Views of the Afterlife
4 Conclusions
4 The Rise of New Doctrines on the Soul and Afterlife: A Late Vedic Conundrum
1 The Decline of Ritualism: Theories on the Transformation of Late Vedic Ideology
2 Conclusions
Part 2: Vedic Soul-Concepts
5 The asu
1 Meanings of the Term
2 asu in the R̥gveda
3 asu in the Atharvaveda
4 asu in the Yajurvedic Saṃhitās
5 asu in the Brāhmaṇas
6 asu in the Upaniṣads
7 Conclusions
8 Excursus: A Note on asu in Epic Sanskrit
6 manas, the Mind
1 manas in the R̥gveda
2 manas in the Atharvaveda
3 The Relation of manas to asu
4 manas in Middle Vedic Thought
5 Late Vedic: Mind as the Central Vital Faculty
6 manas in the Upaniṣads
7 Conclusions
7 prāṇa, the Breath
1 Etymology and Meaning of prāṇa
2 On prāṇa and the prāṇas
3 prāṇa in the R̥gveda
4 prāṇa in the Atharvaveda
5 prāṇa and the prāṇas in Later Vedic Literature
6 The prāṇa’s Rise to Greatness in Late Vedic Texts
7 The Supreme Cosmic and Psychic Force
8 The Fate of the Upaniṣadic prāṇa Concept
9 Conclusions
8 The puruṣa
1 Uses of the Word in Early Vedic
2 puruṣa in Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas
3 Excursus: Some Possible Sources of the Homunculus Conception
4 puruṣa in the Upaniṣads
5 Conclusions
9 The ātman
1 Etymology and Original Sense of the Word
2 ātman in the R̥gveda
3 ātman in the Atharvaveda
4 ātman in Middle Vedic Texts
5 ātman in Late Brāhmaṇas and in the Āraṇyakas
6 ātman in the Upaniṣads
7 Conclusions
PART 3: The Transformation of Vedic Soul-Beliefs
10 Self and Sacrifice: Ritual Interiorization and the Rise of Soul-Doctrines
1 The Interiorization of Ritual and the Emergence of the “Self”
2 Theories on the Causes of Interiorization
3 Interiorization and the Soul
4 Political Symbolism in the Imagery of the Soul
5 Conclusions
11 Soul and Selfhood: Changing Late Vedic Conceptions of the Person
1 Theories on the Unification of the Soul in India and Elsewhere
2 The Unitary Soul in Late Vedic Texts
3 The Question of Spirit-Matter Dualism
4 A Changing Society?
5 The Problem of Individualism in Ancient India
6 Conclusions
12 States of the Soul: Dreaming, Unconsciousness, and Ecstasy in Vedic Thought
1 Free-souls in Vedic India
2 Soul and Dreaming: Vedic Theories on the Nature of Dreams
3 Soul-travel in Vedic Texts
4 Mysticism and the Soul: The Case of the Upaniṣads
5 Conclusions
13 Soul in Non-Brahmanical Traditions
1 Bronkhorst’s Theory: The Inactive Self
2 More on ātman and Renunciation
3 Was There a Śramaṇic Concept of the Soul?
4 Conclusions
5 Excursus: Some Remarks on the Self in Early Buddhism and in the Upaniṣads
14 The Doctrine of Rebirth
1 The Early Vedic Evidence
2 Rebirth Understood in the Ancestral Rites?
3 The Recurring Death
4 Karma
5 The Earliest Theories of Rebirth
6 Conclusions
Part 4: Conclusions
15 Souls and Self in Vedic Thought
Appendix 1: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Soul-Concepts
Appendix 2: Shadow and Reflection
Appendix 3: The Soul or the Dead as Birds
Appendix 4: Soul and Fire
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Numen Book Series ; 176 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1197 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-54599-9 / 9004545999 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-54599-1 / 9789004545991 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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