TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burde, Jayant
TI  - Rituals, mantras, and science: an integral perspective
SN  - 8120820533
U1  - 294.5165 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - motilal banarsidass publishers
KW  - 	 Ritual
KW  -  Hinduism -- Rituals.
KW  - Mantras
N1  - Part I
RELIGIOUS RITUALS
1. Vedic and Ancient India
1. Aryans in India
2. The Vedas 
3. Religion and Dharma
4. Varna and Caste 
5. The Stages of Life
6. Later Gods
7. The Schools of Philosophy
2. Rituals and Mantras
1. The Alphabet 
2. Religious Rituals 
3. Sixteen Sarnskaras
4. Sacrifice
5. Funeral Rites
6. MTmarnsa 
7. Mantras
8. Types of Mantras
9. BTja Mantras 
10. Om and Soham

3. Tantra and Yoga

1. Tantra 
2. Anatomy and Physiology
3. Kaula Tantra "Samaya and MiSra Schools 
4. KundalinT Dynamics
5. Yoga 
6. Yantras 
7. Yantras and Symmetry
8. Mudras

Part II
ANALYTICAL TOOLS

4. Knowledge
1. Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy
2. Induction
3. Memory and Oral Tradition 
4. The Postulates of Induction
5. Science

1. Knowledge and Science
2. Characteristics of Science
3. Hypothesis and Verification
6. Meaning and Interpretation

1. The Meaning of 'Meaning'
2. Truth
3. Interpretation
4. Hermeneutics

7. Structure
1. Introduction
2. Relations 
3. Structural Similarity
4. Transmission of Structures
5. Symmetry
6. Recursion
7. Permutations and Combinations
8. Geometrical Transformations

8. Rituals in General
I. The Nature of Rituals
2. Transactional Analysis
3. Animal Rituals 
4. Ritual Structures
5. Ritual and Abnormal Behaviour 
6. Existentialism

Part III
RITUALS AND SCIENCE

9. Language
I. Semiotics 
2. The Features of Language
3. Syntax and Semantics 
4. Phylogenetic Changes
5. Verse 
6. Sanskrit Verse

10. Music
I. Indian Music 
2. Musical Structure 
3. Percussion and Rhythm

11. The Structure of Religious Ritual
1. Rituals, Mantras and GRS 
2. Yantras and Ritual
3. Awakening of Mantras 
4. GayatrT Mantra 
5. Puja

12. Major Religious Rituals
1. Worship Rituals and their Structure 
2. Major Pujas
3. The Rites of Passage

13. Mantras and Language
1. Pre-linguistic Sounds 
2. Bird Songs
3. Are' Mantras Language?

14. The Interpretation of Rituals
1. Meaning and Meaninglessness 
2. Rituals and Culture
3. Rituals and Instinct
15. Science, Non-Science and Pseudo-science
1. Falsificationism 
2. Mantra astra 
3. Supernatural Powers
4. Pseudo-science 
5. Vedic Mathematics 
6. Siddhis and Science
16. The Science of Ritual
1. Indian Science of Ritual 2. The General Theory of Rituals
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