TALK "Hindu mantras and Christian prayers" by Professor Robert Yelle at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 7th January 2017

Professor Robert Yelle

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 07/01/2017 18:30 07/01/2017 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Hindu mantras and Christian prayers" by Professor Robert Yelle Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/01/talk-hindu-mantras-and-christian.html Conference Room - 1, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Conference Room - 1, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Hindu mantras and Christian prayers".

The lecture will address some of the parallels, as well as the differences, between Hindu mantras (especially those of the Tantric variety) and Christian prayers. Like prayers in many other cultures, each of these has been used historically for a range of purposes: to worship gods and goddesses, of course, but also to perform magic. The first part of the lecture will examine how, through the use of poetry in particular, such formulas are converted into powerful speech, supposed to be capable of achieving their objective. The second part of the lecture will trace the polemics against poetic and magical prayers that originated in the Puritan critique of “vain repetitions.” For several centuries, this polemic was directed against first Roman Catholic chants, then Hindu mantras

Speaker: Professor Robert Yelle, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; author of several books including: Explaining Mantras: Ritual, Rhetoric and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra

Chair: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

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