Religions of Early India : (Record no. 47481)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | RCL |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20251112103924.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780691199269 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | RCL |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.9 D20R |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Davis, Richard H. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Religions of Early India : |
| Sub Title | A Cultural History |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | /Richard H. Davis. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | Oxford: |
| Name of publisher | Princeton University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2024. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xviii, 587p. ; 25cm. |
| Other physical details | illustrations (some color), maps ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rigorous regimes of personal austerity to psycho-spiritual experimentation and utopian visions. In this ambitious and wide-ranging chronicle, Richard Davis offers a history of India's myriad religious cultures that spans two thousand years, from 1300 BCE to 700 CE. India, Davis writes, was not only the birthplace of the religions we now know as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It was also the home of other, often unnamed religions that can be classified as 'folk' or 'popular' religions. Tracing these intertwined practices, Davis shows that the ardent and heterogeneous religious cultures of early India came to define and redefine themselves in relation to one another. Davis recounts this history through voices--voices recorded in hymns, poems, songs, didactic stories, epic narratives, scientific treatises, and theological discourses, as well as voices that speak through material remains, whether monumental sculptures or tiny terracotta figurines of nameless goddesses. He focuses on the long millennium often designated as 'classical India,' which stretches from the time of the founding figures of Buddhism and Jainism during the sixth century BCE through the seventh-century-CE dynasties of the Chalukyas and the Pallavas in southern India. Throughout, he emphasizes encounter, interaction, debate, critique, and borrowing among religious communities within a shared, changing social and political reality. The voices and visions of early India's religions, Davis shows us, are fascinating in their multiplicity" -- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Religion and culture |
| Geographic subdivision | India. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Religion and sociology |
| Geographic subdivision | India. |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Religion et culture |
| Geographic subdivision | Inde. |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Sociologie religieuse |
| Geographic subdivision | Inde. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | RELIGION / History |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Full call number | Accession Number | Lost status | Damaged status | Price effective from | Koha item type | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price |
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| 294.9 D20R | 65257 | 11/12/2025 | Books | History Department Books | RCL | RCL | General Stacks | 10/13/2025 | 3400.00 |