| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 187 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Religion in history, society & culture ; 3
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Religion in history, society & culture ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Word and the World -- Ch. 1. Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic -- Ch. 2. Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation -- Ch. 3. Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras: Language, Canon, and Idolatry -- Ch. 4. Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language -- Ch. 5. Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual -- Ch. 6. Toward a Genealogy of Ritual and Rhetoric: Iconophiles and Iconophobes. |
| Summary |
Explaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra and combines the study of ancient Tantric rituals with the latest theories in the human sciences. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tantras -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tantras. |
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Tantras. |
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Hindu mantras.
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Hindu mantras. |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yelle, Robert A. Explaining mantras. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415966353 (DLC) 2003006793 (OCoLC)51922018 |
| ISBN |
0203483383 (electronic book) |
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9780203483381 (electronic book) |
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0415966353 (Cloth) |
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9780415966351 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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0415966353 |
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