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The Snake and the Mongoose : The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion by Nathan McGovern is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Snake and the Mongoose : The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion about?
Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been predicated on a perceived dichotomy between two meta-historical identities: "the Brahmans" (purveyors of the ancient Vedic texts and associated ritual system) and the newer "non-Brahmanical" sramana movements from which the Buddhists and Jains emerged. Textbook and scholarly accounts postulate an opposition between these two groups, citing the 2nd-century BCE Sanskrit grammarian Patañjali, who is often quoted erroneously as likening them to the proverbial enemies snake and mongoose. Scholars continue to privilege Brahmanical Hindu accounts of early Indian history, and further portray Buddhist and Jain deviations from those accounts as evidence of their opposition to a pre-existing Brahmanism. In The Snake and The Mongoose , Nathan McGovern turns this commonly-accepted model of the origins of the early Indian religions on its head. His book seeks to de-center the Hindu Brahman from our understanding of Indian religion by "taming the snake and the mongoose"--that is, by abandoning the anachronistic distinction between "Brahmani
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nathan McGovern
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190640804
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Judaism