Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table of Contents XV
4. I. Methodology
5. 1 Hinduism as a Culture of Sound 1
6. II. History
7. 2 The Veda as a Basic Paradigm for Sacred Language and Sacred Sound 331
8. 3 Composition and Decomposition: Analytical Studies and Popularizations of the Veda - Rationality and Aesthetics of Post-Vedic Literatures and Performing Arts 457
9. 4 Pluralism and the Search for Orientation: De-Sacralization and Re-Sacralization of Language in Poetics, Linguistics, and Metaphysics 525
10. 5 Performance and Sensuality: The Sound Universes of Tantra and Devotionalism 664
11. 6 Sensory Substance: Nada-Brahman in East and West 809
12. 7 Appendix: Music CD - Accompanying Text 1042
13. Primary Sources 1051
14. Secondary Sources 1061
15. Index 1097