Tales for the Dying: The Death Narrative of the Bhāgavata-Purāna (SUNY series in Hindu Studies) - Hardcover

Jarow, E. H. Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791456099 ISBN 13: 9780791456095

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2003

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Book by E H Rick Jarow

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Tales for the Dying explores the centrality of death and dying in the narrative of the Bhagavata-Purana, India's great text of devotional theism, canonized as an integral part of the Vaisnava bhakti tradition. The text grapples with death through an imaginative meditation, one that works through the presence and power of narrative. The story of the Bhagavata-Purana is spoken to a king who is about to die, and it enables him to come to terms with his own passing. The work does not isolate dying as an issue; it treats it on many levels.

This book discusses how images of dying in the Bhagavata-Purana relate to issues of language and love in the religious imagination of India. Drawing on insights from studies in myth, literary semiotics, and depth psychology, as well as from Indian commentarial and aesthetic traditions, the author examines the power of myth and narrative (storytelling or hari katha) and shows how a detailed awareness of the Puranic imagination may lead to a revisioning of some long-held presuppositions around Indian religious attitudes toward dying. By casting Vaisnava bhakti traditions and Puranic narrative in a fresh light, the mythic imagination of the Puranas takes its place on the stage of contemporary discourse on comparative mythology and literature.

Biografía del autor

E. H. Rick Jarow is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vassar College and the author of In Search of the Sacred: A Pilgrimage to Holy Places.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791456099
• ISBN 13: 9780791456095
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 214