Words and Deeds - Hindu and Buddhist Rituals in South Asia

Jörg Gengnagel, Ute Hüsken, Srilata Raman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

299 Seiten

2005 | 1., Aufl.
Harrassowitz Verlag
978-3-447-05152-1 (ISBN)

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Words and Deeds is a collection of articles on rituals in South Asia with a special focus on their texts and context. The volume presupposes that a comprehensive definition of "ritual" does not exist. Instead, the papers in it avoid essentialist definitions, allowing for a possible polythetic definition of the concept to emerge. Papers in this volume include those on Initiation, Pre-Natal Rites, Religious Processions, Royal Consecration, Rituals which mark the commencement of ritual, Rituals of devotion and Vedic sacrifice as well as contributions which address the broader theoretical issues of engaging in the study of ritual texts and ritual practice, both from the etic and the emic perspective. These studies show that any study of the relationship between the text and the context of rituals must also allow for the possibility that different categories of performers can and do subjectively constitute the relationship between their ritual knowledge and ritual practice, between text and context in differing and nuanced ways.

Jörg Gengnagel ist Privatdozent für Indologie und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des SFB »Ritualdynamik« der Universität Heidelberg.

Reihe/Serie	Ethno-Indology
Zusatzinfo	10 Abb.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	577 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Schlagworte	Buddhismus • Hinduismus • Indien /Volkskunde, Völkerkunde • Indologie • Ritual • Südasien; Religion
ISBN-10	3-447-05152-3 / 3447051523
ISBN-13	978-3-447-05152-1 / 9783447051521
Zustand	Neuware