Name: Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) (en Inglés)
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Author: Mani Rao
ISBN: 9783319963907

portada Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Palgrave Macmillan

Autor

Mani Rao

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

215

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783319963907

N° edición

Categorías

Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica

Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) (en Inglés)

Mani Rao (Autor) · Palgrave Macmillan · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) (en Inglés)"

Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India’s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.