„Overall, this is a highly readable and informative study that should interest anthropologists, historians of
religion, Indologists, and scholars of orality, literacy, and knowledge systems in South Asia.“
Finnian M. M. Gerety in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2/2018, 374-376
„Embodying the Vedas is a rare book indeed, because few scholars possess the interdisciplinary skills necessary to execute such an ambitious project. Its rarity underscores its importance, however, for despite well over a century of scholarly work on the Vedic tradition, there has been precious little theorization of the very thing which has allowed the tradition to survive three millennia: its pedagogy.“ Caley Charles Smith in: Reading Religion, https://readingreligion. org/books/embodying-vedas (26.02.2021)
„Fondée sur des observations précises mais situées et interprétées dans le cadre général de l’hindouisme, rédigée avec clarté, cette enquête apporte du neuf. Il serait intéressant de la rapprocher d’autres formes de transmission de la Parole ou du Livre, en particulier dans le judaïsme et dans l’islam. Plus largement, elle offre matière à réflexion sur les relations entre parole et rite, Écriture et communauté croyante.“
J. Scheuer in: Nouvelle revue théologique 140/3 (2018), 511
„La combinazione di prospettiva etnografica e analisi testuale, che Larios è in grado di proporre grazie alla sua duplice formazione, rende il testo pregevole e in qualche modo unico, capace di rispondere a domande centrali degli studi storico-religiosi moderni: come il passato si combina con il presente e come questo rapporto si sviluppa nella quotidianità dell’induismo contemporaneo.“ Pietro Chierichetti in: Humanitas 73(2/2018), 339-341
„With detailed ethnographic work and perceptive theoretical discussions, Embodying the Vedas is essential reading for anyone interested in the Vedas, modern Vedic practice, Brahmin
identity, and Hindu religious education.“
Charles S. Preston in: International Journal of Hindu Studies 24/2020, 419–420