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Temples, Hindu --- Hindu sociology.

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Hindu sociology --- Hindu ethics

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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 sûris 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.

Hindu sociology --- History. --- Vedas. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- India --- Social conditions

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Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu Valley, a city which is perhaps the last surviving example of a type of organization once widespread in the ancient world. Robert Levy views Bhaktapur as a structured "mesocosm," mediating between the microcosm of individual self-conception and the macrocosm of the culturally conceived larger universe. The city is a bounded entity, grounded on a minutely divided and interrelated sacrilized space. It uses that space, roles assigned by an elaborate caste system, a semantically differentiated pantheon, and the tempos and forms of the festival year and rites of passage to construct a "civic dance," a web of communication and instruction which deeply affects the experience of Bhaktapur's citizens. Levy investigates the meaning of the community to the people who live there and suggests how the religious forms that have challenged Hinduism in South Asia - Christianity and, above all, Islam - are profoundly antithetical to Hinduism as the organizing principle for cities such as Bhaktapur. Mesocosm is a groundbreaking contribution to anthropology, social and religious history, and Indian and Nepalese studies--Publisher's description.

Hindu sociology. --- Sociology, Urban --- Hinduism --- Newar (Nepalese people) --- Hindu sociology --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Bhaktapur (Nepal) --- Religious life and customs. --- Newar (Nepalese people). --- Urban sociology --- Sociology, Hindu --- Newari (Nepalese people) --- Newars --- Bhādgāon, Nepal --- Bhādgāon (Nepal) --- Bhatgaon (Nepal) --- Bhatgoan (Nepal) --- Bhakatpur (Nepal) --- Badagaon (Nepal) --- Khvapa (Nepal) --- Bhakttapura (Nepal) --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Cities and towns --- Sociology --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples