Book Summary
In this book, the first full-length study of the Asrama System, PatrickOlivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines indepth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of theBrahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses itssignificance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, the authorargues that the asrama system is primarily a theological construct and that thesystem and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respectivehistories. He pays special attention to how the system was theologicallyreappropriated in diverse ways at different historical periods through thehermeneutic labors of exegetes and theologians. The book thusrepresents a major study not only of Hindu religious history, but also of thetradition of Indian hermeneutics.
Book Details
| Book Name | The Asrama System: The History And Hermeneneutics Of A Religious Institution |
| Author | Patrick Olivelle |
| Publisher | Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd (2004) |
| ISBN | 9788121511353 |
| Pages | 287 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 650 |
