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Encountering the Goddess
- A Translation of the Devi-Mahatmya and a Study of Its Interpretation
Af: Thomas B. Coburn
Engelsk
Bogcover for Encountering the Goddess af Thomas B. Coburn, 9780791404461
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Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780791404461
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Paperback
ISBN-10:
0791404463
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Udg. Dato:
2 maj 1991
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,1 x 2,0
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Oplagsdato:
2 maj 1991
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Encountering the Goddess

- A Translation of the Devi-Mahatmya and a Study of Its Interpretation
Af: Thomas B. Coburn
Engelsk
Paperback 1991
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Paperback
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Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devi-Mahatmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form?

One comes away from Coburn''s work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a "text." The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating.

Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of ''scripture,'' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Devi-Mahatmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred.

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272
ISBN-13:
9780791404461
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0791404463
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 maj 1991
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,1 x 2,0
Forlag:
Serie:
Oplagsdato:
2 maj 1991
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