Essays in Vedic Interpretation

Monday, February 19, 2007
Essays in Vedic Interpretation
Authority, Anxiety and CanonEssays in Vedic InterpretationEdited by Laurie L. Patton
Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 183Sri Satguru Publications (Delhi), ISBN: 81-7030-425-3
Price: Rs. 390
Contents:
PART ONEThe Vedas Reflect on Themselves
1. The Mastery of Speech( Cononicity and Control in the Vedas)David Carpenter
2. Veda in the Brahmanas( Cosmogonic Paradigms and the Delimitation of Canon)Barbara A. Holdrege
3. The Veda and the Authority of Class( Reduplicating Structures of Veda and Varna in Ancient Indian Text)Brian K. Smith
PART TWOThe Vedas in Classical Discourse
4. PuranavedaFrederick M. Smith
5. From Anxiety to Bliss( Argument, Care and Responsiblity in the Vedanta Reading of Taittiriya 2.1-6aFrancis X. Clooney, S.J.
6. "Whither the Thick Sweetness of Their Passion ?"( The Search for Vedic Origins of Sanskrit Drama)David L. Gitomer
PART THREEThe Vedas in Modernity and Beyond
7. The Authority of an Absent Text( The Veda, Upangas, Upavedas and Upnekhata in European Thought)Dorothy M. Figueira
8. From Interpretation to Reform( Dayanand's Reading of the Vedas)John E. Llewellyn
9. Redefing the Authority of Scripture( The Rejection of Vedic Infallibility by the Brahmo Samaj)Anantanand Rambachan
10. Poets and Fishes( Modern Indian Interpretation of the Vedic Rishi)Laurie L. Patton
Afterwords, Contributors, Index
About the Book
Authority, Anxiety and Canon elucidates a principal fundamental to Hinduism's self understanding - the Veda - while at the same time examining the methodological issues of the role of canon in religious tradition. Spanning the early periods of Indian religions history up to the twentieth century, the book combines theoretical sophistication and detailed scholarship to produce one of the first comprehensive works on Vedic interpretation since Louis Renou's Le Destin Du Veda.
Laurie L. Patton is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at Bard College.
What a feast these essays provide! Together they constitute the most sophisticated yet accessible volume I have come across in years. There are moments in reading when I simply had to pause to write the word 'stunning' and to ponder the implications of what the author had just said.
Thomas B. Coburn, St. Lawrence University
This anthology assembles a series of superbly researched and written articles around the theme of authority and anxiety as it displays itself in the Hindu Tradition. The authors are the best of the generation of young scholars now establishing or having established their names in the field. There is a very good level of conversation amond the articles, and the editor's introduction does an exceptionally clear and compelling job of setting forth the issues of canon and authority with respect to the place of the Vedas in traditional Hindu culture and modern Western scholarly and Hindu tradition. The volume is well crafted, coherent and well written
Paul B. Courtright, Emory University
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