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Sound and Communication : An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism / Annette Wilke, Oliver Moebus.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 41Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (1112 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110181593
  • 9783110240030
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.5/514 22
LOC classification:
  • BL1215.S67
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- I. Methodology -- 1 Hinduism as a Culture of Sound -- II. History -- 2 The Veda as a Basic Paradigm for Sacred Language and Sacred Sound -- 3 Composition and Decomposition: Analytical Studies and Popularizations of the Veda - Rationality and Aesthetics of Post-Vedic Literatures and Performing Arts -- 4 Pluralism and the Search for Orientation: De-Sacralization and Re-Sacralization of Language in Poetics, Linguistics, and Metaphysics -- 5 Performance and Sensuality: The Sound Universes of Tantra and Devotionalism -- 6 Sensory Substance: Nada-Brahman in East and West -- 7 Appendix: Music CD - Accompanying Text -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
Summary: A new way of accessing Hinduism, focusing on the perception and interpretation of sounds and giving a lively insight into sacred literatures, rites, and indigenous scientific systems in India.Summary: Ein neuer Zugang zum Hinduismus, der Klangwahrnehmung und -deutung ins Zentrum stellt und einen lebendigen Eindruck von Sakralliteraturen, Riten und Wissenschaftssystemen Indiens vermittelt
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- I. Methodology -- 1 Hinduism as a Culture of Sound -- II. History -- 2 The Veda as a Basic Paradigm for Sacred Language and Sacred Sound -- 3 Composition and Decomposition: Analytical Studies and Popularizations of the Veda - Rationality and Aesthetics of Post-Vedic Literatures and Performing Arts -- 4 Pluralism and the Search for Orientation: De-Sacralization and Re-Sacralization of Language in Poetics, Linguistics, and Metaphysics -- 5 Performance and Sensuality: The Sound Universes of Tantra and Devotionalism -- 6 Sensory Substance: Nada-Brahman in East and West -- 7 Appendix: Music CD - Accompanying Text -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index

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A new way of accessing Hinduism, focusing on the perception and interpretation of sounds and giving a lively insight into sacred literatures, rites, and indigenous scientific systems in India.

Ein neuer Zugang zum Hinduismus, der Klangwahrnehmung und -deutung ins Zentrum stellt und einen lebendigen Eindruck von Sakralliteraturen, Riten und Wissenschaftssystemen Indiens vermittelt

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)