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  title info:
    title: Living Mantra
    sub title: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today
  name:
    name part: Rao, Mani.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 215 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India's Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.
  table of contents: Part 1: Preparation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Mountain of Scholarship -- 3. Crossing Over -- 4. Are there Revelations Today? - Part 2: Fieldwork -- 5. Body-Yantra: Sahasrakshi Meru Temple, Devipuram -- 6. Self-Made: Svayam Siddha Kali Pitham, Guntur -- 7. "I am in Mantra, Mantra is in me": Nachiketa Tapovan, Kodgal -- Part 3 -- 8. Understanding Mantra Again.
  note: by Mani Rao.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Religion and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Social Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Society
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Religion
  classification: GN301-674
  classification: 305.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
  identifier: 9783319963914
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96391-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 180915
    record change date: 20191220125831.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-96391-4