The snake and the mongoose : the emergence of identity in early Indian religion /
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press,
2019
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| author | McGovern, Nathan, 1981- |
| author_facet | McGovern, Nathan, 1981- |
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| author_sort | McGovern, Nathan, 1981- |
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| contents | The snake and the mongoose at the horizon of Indian history -- Taming the snake and the mongoose of Indian history -- The Brahman as a celibate renunciant -- The Brahman as a head of a household -- The emergence of the snake and the mongoose -- Losing an argument by focusing on being right. |
| era_facet | To 1500. |
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| geographic | India Religion. 1343 |
| geographic_facet | India |
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| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| institution | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
| isbn | 9780190640798 |
| language | English |
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| physical | xiv, 313 pages; 25 cm |
| publishDate | 2019 |
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| spelling | McGovern, Nathan, 1981- author. 1338 The snake and the mongoose : the emergence of identity in early Indian religion / Nathan McGovern. The snake & the mongoose New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv, 313 pages; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier The snake and the mongoose at the horizon of Indian history -- Taming the snake and the mongoose of Indian history -- The Brahman as a celibate renunciant -- The Brahman as a head of a household -- The emergence of the snake and the mongoose -- Losing an argument by focusing on being right. "This book turns the commonly-accepted model of the origins of the early Indian religions on its head. Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the major early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been based on an assumed dichotomy between two meta-historical identities: 'the Brahmans' and the newer 'non-Brahmanical' sramana movements. Textbook and scholarly accounts typically purport an 'opposition' between these two groups by citing the 2nd-century-BCE Sanskrit grammarian Patañjali, often stating erroneously that he compared their animosity for one another to that of the snake and the mongoose. This book seeks to de-center the Hindu Brahman from our understanding of Indian religion by 'taming the snake and the mongoose'--that is, abandoning the anachronistic distinction between 'Brahmanical' and 'non-Brahmanical' and letting the earliest articulations of identity in Indian religion speak for themselves on their own terms. It accomplishes this goal through a comparative reading of texts preserved by the three major groups that emerged from the social, political, cultural, and religious foment of the late first millennium BCE: the Buddhists and Jains as they represented themselves in their earliest sutras, and the Vedic Brahmans as they represented themselves in their Dharma Sutras. The picture that emerges is not of a fundamental dichotomy between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical, but rather of many different groups who all saw themselves as Brahmanical, and out of whose contestation with one another the distinction between Brahmanical and non-Brahmanical--the snake and the mongoose--emerged"-- Provided by publisher. Identification (Religion) History To 1500. 1339 Buddhism Origin. 1340 Jainism Origin. 1341 Hinduism Origin. 1342 India Religion. 1343 |
| spellingShingle | McGovern, Nathan, 1981- The snake and the mongoose : the emergence of identity in early Indian religion / The snake and the mongoose at the horizon of Indian history -- Taming the snake and the mongoose of Indian history -- The Brahman as a celibate renunciant -- The Brahman as a head of a household -- The emergence of the snake and the mongoose -- Losing an argument by focusing on being right. Identification (Religion) History To 1500. 1339 Buddhism Origin. 1340 Jainism Origin. 1341 Hinduism Origin. 1342 |
| title | The snake and the mongoose : the emergence of identity in early Indian religion / |
| title_alt | The snake & the mongoose |
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| title_full | The snake and the mongoose : the emergence of identity in early Indian religion / Nathan McGovern. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The snake and the mongoose : the emergence of identity in early Indian religion / Nathan McGovern. |
| title_short | The snake and the mongoose : |
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| title_sub | the emergence of identity in early Indian religion / |
| topic | Identification (Religion) History To 1500. 1339 Buddhism Origin. 1340 Jainism Origin. 1341 Hinduism Origin. 1342 |
| topic_facet | Identification (Religion) Buddhism Jainism Hinduism History Origin. Religion. |
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