Hamsa Stainton

Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the history of a popular genre of Sanskrit devotional poetry in Kashmir: the stotra, or hymn of praise. Focusing on literary hymns from the eighth century to the twentieth, it studies the close link between literary and religious expression in South Asia¿the relationship between poetry and prayer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780190889814
• ISBN-10: 0190889810
• Artikelnr.: 54796492

Autorenporträt

Hamsa Stainton is Assistant Professor in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. He studied South Asian religions at Columbia University (Ph.D., 2013), Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S., 2007), and Cornell University (B.A., 2004). His co-edited volume (with Bettina Sharada Bäumer), Tantrapuspañjali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir; Studies in Memory of Pandit H.N. Chakravarty, was published in 2018 by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Stotra Literature: An Overview
3. Literary Hymns from Kashmir
4. Poetry as Theology
5. Poetry as Prayer
6. Stotra as Kavya
7. Devotion as Rasa
8. Stotra as Tradition
9. Conclusion