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Ascetics and Brahmins
- Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
Engelsk Hardback
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- Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
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This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian religions and philosophies. Most of the major religions, such as Buddhism and Jainism, and religious philosophies both within these new religions and in the Brahmanical tradition, were created by world-renouncing ascetics. Yet ascetical institutions and ideologies developed in a creative tension with other religious institutions that stressed the centrality of family, procreation and society. It is this tension that has articulated many of the central features of Indian religion and culture. The papers collected in this volume seek to locate Indian ascetical traditions within their historical, political and ideological contexts.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9780857284327
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0857284320
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 dec 2011
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
Anthem Press
Oplagsdato:
15 dec 2011
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge