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The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual- Paperback
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- 9780226323015
- Publication Year
- 1993
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- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Broken World of Sacrifice : an Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
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- University of Chicago Press
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
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In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice--the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas , and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras , Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire--the element of destruction--at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman . Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice--the riddle of life and death--keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226323013
ISBN-13
9780226323015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92057
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Broken World of Sacrifice : an Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
306 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl1236.76.S23h44
Table of Content
Preface Introduction 1. Sacrifice 2. Ritual 3. The Cult of the Fire 4. The Periodicity and Mobility of the Fire 5. Priest and Sacrificer 6. The Consecrated 7. The Sacrificial Meal 8. Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Index
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Hinduism / General, Sociology of Religion
Lccn
92-036751
Dewey Decimal
294.534
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
Religion, Social Science
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