Reflections on Resemblance, Ritual, and Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5126706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona M Smith (0000-0002-4789-6751), Frederick M Smith, Brian Smith (0000-0002-6523-2019) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 735 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Reflections on resemblance, ritual, and religion, Brian K Smith, 1989 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/602902 |
| OpenAlex | W2056557280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This volume explores the organizational principles of the ancient Indian sacrificial system, and the role Vedic religion plays in later orthodox Hinduism. The author argues that Vedic conceptions of the cosmos, the nature of the human being, visions of the afterlife, and representations of ritual theory and practice can all be understood in similar terms. Illuminating such general issues as the definition of religion, the nature and purpose of ritual, the dynamics of sacrifice and substitution, and the process of change and continuity in traditions, this book serves as a guide to a complex ancient religion and its legacy
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Sociology · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Veins of Devotion
TheŚrāddha
Dattātreya‘s Dwelling Place”
Viniyogavijñāna
Death be not proud
Questioning authority
On Platial Imagination in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata
Science, patriotism, and Mother Veda
Body connections
Comparative Mystics
The Nature and Elements of Sacrificial Ritual
La unificación del hinduismo antes de la época colonial
Symposium
Myths of meritocracy
Rejecting violence
Religious texts, priestly education and ritual action in south Indian temple Hinduism
Classifying the Universe
Articulation of physical and social bodies in Kerala
The return to life of Er and the antarābhava
Etymology and Magic
An Early Indian Interpretive Puzzle
Vedic Language and Vaiṣṇava Theology
Is Brahman a Person or a Self? Competing Theories in the Early Upaniṣads
From Brahma to a blade of grass
The Identity of Person and World in Caraka Saṃhitā 4.5
The identity and significance of the valmīkiavap in the Vedic ritual
The identity and significance of the valmīkiavapā ́ in the Vedic ritual
The killing that is not killing
Brahmanical Theology and a Buddhist Text
Dharmaskandhāḥ and Brahmasaṃsthaḥ
Hybridity, Vacuity, and Blockage
Text, Tradition, and Imagination
The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India
Wind, traffic and dust
Language, Ritual and Society
Winds of Change
What is Yogic Gnosticism? Demarcating an Elite Ritual Identity Worth Reconsidering
Permeable and Partible Persons
Exchange and Transaction as a Form of Life and Meaning in the Logic of Tantric Concepts
Loving Paradoxes
Medieval Haṭhayoga Sādhana
Planètes, remèdes et cosmologies. La thérapeutique astrologique à Bénarès
Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece
Boundaries of the Text
From ritual to grammar
The Debate over Hindutva
Re-envisioning Hinduism and Evaluating the Hindutva Movement
Ritual and classification
Predecessors and Prototypes
Conceiving the Canon in Dvaita Vedanta
Who Invented Hinduism
Hybrid Times, Hybrid People
Interiorized Fire Rituals in India and in Tibet
Tēvāram
| Highly cited | No |
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