Table of Contents

Hinduism as a Culture of Sound – The Veda as a Basic Paradigm for Sacred Language and Sacred Sound – Composition and Decomposition: Post-Vedic Sacred Literature and Formation of Analytical Studies – The Diversity of Sonic Representation Systems –Pluralism and the Search for Orientation: Acrobats of Language in Poetics, Hermeneutics and Metaphysics – Performance and Sensuality: The Sound Universes of Tantra and Devotionalism –Continuities, Breaks, Re-codification: The Merging of Traditions in the “Sound-Brahman” (Nada-Brahman) and Their Modern Forms in Bollywood –The Logic of Scripture and the Logic of Sound: Concluding Remarks on Media, Hierarchies of Perception and Religious Aesthetics

About the Author

Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.