Thinking Ritually: Rediscovering the Purva Mimamsa of Jaimini

Francis Clooney's is a scholarly monograph examining Jaimini's Purva Mimamsa Sutra on its own interpretive terms, arguing that the commentarial tradition beginning with Sabara updated and reworked Jaimini's original argument rather than simply transmitting it, a specific historical-critical claim about the school's own commentarial history. Clooney is an established scholar of comparative theology with a specific record in Mimamsa studies. This record has not independently traced later scholarly response to Clooney's specific reading of the relationship between Jaimini and his commentators. Use it for Jaimini's Mimamsa Sutra, its argument against a required creator god, and the interpretive method the school built around Vedic ritual injunction.