Feeding the Dead - Ancestor Worship in Ancient India

Zusatztext This compact volume makes a notable contribution to our understanding of doctrinal and institutional shifts in India in the last centuries before the Common Era. Sayers is one of just a handful of recent scholars to call attention to the importance of the Vedic domestic ritual codes in the creation of what has come to be known as 'classical Hinduism.' He is to be congratulated for setting the complex ritual particulars within a clearly limned overview of the competing religious ideologies being 'marketed' by rival groups of professional 'religious experts.' He manages to do this without trivializing the ideas at stake, and without glibly reifying categories such as 'popular' and 'elite' or 'Brahmanical' and 'non-Brahmanical.' Informationen zum Autor Matthew R. Sayers is Assistant Professor of Religion at Lebanon Valley College. Klappentext Feeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition. "This compact volume makes a notable contribution to our understanding of doctrinal and institutional shifts in India in the last centuries before the Common Era. Sayers is one of just a handful of recent scholars to call attention to the importance of the Vedic domestic ritual codes in the creation of what has come to be known as 'classical Hinduism.' He is to be congratulated for setting the complex ritual particulars within a clearly limned overview of the competing religious ideologies being 'marketed' by rival groups of professional 'religious experts.' He manages to do this without trivializing the ideas at stake, and without glibly reifying categories such as 'popular' and 'elite' or 'Brahmanical' and 'non-Brahmanical.'" - Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University Zusammenfassung Feeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition....

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• Authors: Matthew R. Sayers, Matthew R. (Assistant Professor of Religio Sayers, Sayers Matthew R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199917471
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991747-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Hinduismus, Asiatische Geschichte, Indischer Subkontinent, RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Archaeology / Anthropology, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, India, RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, Hinduism, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Hindu worship, rites & ceremonies, HISTORY / Asia / South / India