Embodying the Vedas: traditional Vedic schools of contemporary Maharashtra

Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world’s oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750–1200 BCE. The V...

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主要作者: Larios, Borayin Maitreya 1981- (Author)
企業作者: Universität Heidelberg (Degree granting institution)
格式: 電子 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Warsaw Berlin De Gruyter Open [2017]
In:Year: 2017
叢編:Open Access Hinduism
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 印度 / Maharashtra / 婆羅門教 / 吠陀教
B Veda / 高等教育 / 學校
Further subjects:B Brahmanism (India) (Maharashtra)
B 將軍 (軍銜) / Hinduism / RELIGION 
B Hinduism and education (India) (Maharashtra)
B Hinduism, Vedic Schools, priestly education, Gurukula, Modern India, Ethno-Indology
B 學位論文
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 978-3-11-051746-0
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總結:Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world’s oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750–1200 BCE. The Vedas have been considered by many as the philosophical cornerstone of the Brahmanical traditions (āstika); even previous to the colonial construction of the concept of “Hinduism.” However, what can be pieced together from the Vedic texts is very different from contemporary Hindu religious practices, beliefs, social norms and political realities. This book presents the results of a study of the traditional education and training of Brahmins through the traditional system of education called gurukula as observed in 25 contemporary Vedic schools across the state of Maharasthra. This system of education aims to teach Brahmin males how to properly recite, memorize and ultimately embody the Veda. This book combines insights from ethnographic and textual analysis to unravel how the recitation of the Vedic texts and the Vedic traditions, as well as the identity of the traditional Brahmin in general, are transmitted from one generation to the next in contemporary India
Item Description:Vom Autor zitiert als: Embodying sacred sound
Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
格式:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:3110517310
訪問:Open Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9783110517323