Yelle Explaining Mantras

Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-88817-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Reihe: Religion in History, Society and Culture

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yelle, Robert A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Translation

Introduction: The Word and the World

1. Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic

2. Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation

3. The Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras: Language, Canon, and Idolatry

4. The Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language

5. The Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual

6. Toward a Genealogy of Ritual and Rhetoric: Iconophiles and Iconophobes

Notes
Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert A. Yelle has a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago. He spent a year as a Fulbright-Hays Fellow researching Tantric ritual in Calcutta, India, and has published articles in Numen, Religion, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.