Reappraising Objects of Desire Through Practices of Devotion: A Cognitive Historiographical Approach to Religious Claims in Medieval India
Desires for mundane objects have been a central problem of concern in the development of many Indian traditions. Accordingly, they developed various methods for regulating and preventing them. But why would these practices be effective? To answer this question, I focus on the theology of the early G...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2015]
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Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-181 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Chaitanya
/ Trishnā
/ Desire
/ Devotion
/ Practice
/ Soteriology
/ Schematheorie
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RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
Religion and science
B Desire B Hinduism B Cognitive Historiography B Devotion B schema theory |
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