Feeding the Dead

This compact volume makes a notable contribution to our understanding of doctrinal and institutional shifts in India in the last centuries before the Common Era. Sayers is one of just a handful of recent scholars to call attention to the importance of the Vedic domestic ritual codes in the creation of what has come to be known as 'classical Hinduism.' He is to be congratulated for setting the complex ritual particulars within a clearly limned overview of the competing religious ideologies being 'marketed' by rival groups of professional 'religious experts.' He manages to do this without trivializing the ideas at stake, and without glibly reifying categories such as 'popular' and 'elite' or 'Brahmanical' and 'non-Brahmanical.'

Autorentext
Matthew R. Sayers is Assistant Professor of Religion at Lebanon Valley College.

Klappentext
Feeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition.

Inhalt
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ancestral Rites in the Early Vedas
Chapter 2: The Solemn Ancestral Rites
Chapter 3: The Domestic Rice-ball Sacrifice to the Ancestors
Chapter 4: The sraddha-rite
Chapter 5: Ancestral Rites in the Buddhist Literature
Chapter 6: Soteriology
Chapter 7: Mediation
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Bibliography
Index

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