By Francis X. Clooney
ISBN-10: 0791429954
ISBN-13: 9780791429952
Examines texts and commentaries within the Tamil-language SArivastradition of South India; concerning the basic problems with textual content, imaginative and prescient, and narrative that such texts elevate, and in regards to the implications of those for a selected kind of comparative theology.
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This study takes the swifter path, engaging Tiruvaymoli *as an integral literary document possessed of its own dynamics as a work of literature, with its own style of interaction with its readers. None of which features can be ignored merely in favor of understanding its components in relation to components of other earlier and contemporary texts. Awareness of the broader context provides a note of caution to accompany this study. We will try not to discover uniqueness where it is not actually to be found, nor to make too much of features that may turn out, in fact, to be rather common.
How does it matter (for this book, for instance) that I am a Roman Catholic born in the United States, reading and writing at the < previous page page_36 If you like this book, buy it! 2011 18:01:02] next page > page_37 page_37 < previous page next page > Page 37 end of the 20th century? How do I deal with the demands of Tiruvaymoli *andhow might this differ from the way other readers would manage this?
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