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An unholy brew : alcohol in Indian history and religions / James McHugh

McHugh, James [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2021] [© 2021]

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 403 Seiten)

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: An unholy brew / McHugh, James [GNDNR:1030013233] (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-760303-1

978-0-19-937594-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-19-937593-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Basisklassifikation: 11.94 (Indische Religionen: Sonstiges)

*Indien ; Alkohol ; Geschichte     Zum Register

*Sanskrit ; Literatur ; Alkohol <Motiv>      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Drinking of alcoholic beverages-India

The first book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore intoxicating drinks and styles of drinking, as well as sophisticated rationales for abstinence found in South Asia from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.

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Cover -- An Unholy Brew -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Aperitif: Surā, the Prototypical Liquor of India -- ROUND ONE DRINKS AND DRINKING -- Cup 1: Surā Made from Grains -- Cup 2: Sugarcane, Wine, Toddy, and Other Drinks -- Cup 3: Surā Brewing and Public Drinking -- Cup 4: Luxurious, Erotic Drinking in Literary Texts -- Cup 5: Drink, Health, and Disease in Āyurvedic Texts -- ROUND TWO DRINK AND RELIGION -- Cup 6: Drink in Ritual, Myths, and Epic -- Cup 7: The Filth of Grain and the Pain of Drink: Morality, Vice, and Law -- Cup 8: Surā Regained: Drink in Tantra -- Cup 9: Firewater and Corpse-​Reviver: Alcohol in Later Sanskrit Sources -- Digestif: What Do We Do about This Stuff That Makes Everything Go Awry? -- Appendix: Soma, Ancient Drugs, and Modern Scholars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.