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| Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination | ||
| 作者 | Mahony, William K. |
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| 頁次 | 325 |
| 出版者 | Sri Satguru Publications |
| 出版地 | New Delhi, India [新德里, 印度] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 奧義書=Upanishad; 戲劇=Drama |
| 摘要 | Mahony, a professor of religion at Davidson College in North Carolina, offers a lively introduction to the 3500-year-old Vedic tradition, which has played a formative role in Indian civilization in general and Hinduism in particular. Central to the Vedic religion, Mahony contends, are the ideas of "transcendent universal order and harmony" expressed through ritual performances and mythic narratives. Using selections from the Vedic writings, especially the Rig Veda and the Upanishads, Mahony demonstrates how the Vedic imagination represents the principle of harmony in the construction of a meaningful world. In three particularly enlightening chapters, Mahony focuses on the poet as the "visionary artist of the verbal imagination," the priest as the "artist of universal drama and the liturgical imagination" and the "inward seer as enacting the liberating power of the contemplative imagination." Although Mahony uses sometimes complex literary and philological approaches to the Vedic texts, his thoughtful prose is engaging and draws readers into the practices and history of an ancient religion. |
| ISBN | 0791435806 |
| 點閱次數 | 499 |
| 建檔日期 | 2006.04.27 |
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