Living Traditions in Contemporary Context: The Madhva Matha of Udupi - Hardcover

Vasudeva Rao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 812502297X ISBN 13: 9788125022978

Publisher: Orient Blackswan, 2002

Synopsis

This book examines a monastic intitution - the Madhva Matha of Udupi (Udipi) in Southern Karnataka - as a site of the formation of religious opinion, of monastic training, and practice, and the transmission of knowledge. The author brings both sociological and textual perspectives to bear on his work. Vasudeva Rao's is one of the books to focus on amonastic institution as the site of the formation of religious opinion in the context of monastic training and practice. His work provides an understanding of doxa or religious opinion in the context of the Madhva tradition of South India.

About this title

About the Author:

Vasudeva Rao holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, where he subsequently taught a few years. He is at present a Consultant at the United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orient Blackswan
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 812502297X
• ISBN 13: 9788125022978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240