Rgvedic Society (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 2)

Rgvedic Society (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 2)

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Book Description
It is generally supposed that the Vedic tradition emerged from certain Brahmanic circles of poets, priests and theoreticians who depended economically very much on a kind of pastoral aristocracy. As against this point of view the book maintains the theory that the Vedic tradition was mainly connected with the warrior world, in particular with certain groups of seers that surrounded the warrior chiefs called suris and strongly opposed the pastoral aristocracy and their priesthood. What emerges from this approach is that the Vedic tradition, in spite of its apparent unity of themes, images and even sentences, is not a tradition based on consensus or on a harmonious development of thought from one end to the other, but rather a tradition that reveals a troubled background, a background of passionate rivalries. The book reconsiders the debate surrounding the antagonistic ideologies of pastoral and agricultural peoples and represents a new contribution to the discussion about similarities and differences between the Iranian and the Indo-Aryan cultures.

Rgvedic Society (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 2),Enric Aguilar i Matas,Enrique Aguilar Matas,Brill Academic Publishers,9004093524,Criticism, interpretation, etc,General,Hindu sociology,Hinduism,History,India,Interior Design - General,Literary Criticism,Religion - World Religions,Rgveda,Social conditions,To 1200,Vedas,Vedas.,ôRgveda,Sociology, Social Studies,South East Asia

Book Contents:

1. Roman Marble Quarries in Southern Euboea: And the Associated Road Systems (Monumenta Graeca Et Romana)
2. Sanctuaries and Cults in Crete from the Late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period: Continuity and Change (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)
3. Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period (Islamic History and Civilization)
4. Spectacular Homes of the Carolinas (Spectacular Homes)
5. Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)
6. Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Arab and Islamic Laws Series)
7. Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translations and Interpretation in Memory of Ernest G. Clarke (Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, 2)
8. The Apostolic Age in Patristic Thought (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, V. 70)
9. The Archaistic Style in Roman Statuary (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
10. The Canonical Approach: A Critical Reconstruction of the Hermeneutics of Brevard S. Childs (Biblical Interpretation, No 16)

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