Religious Authority in South Asia
Generating the Guru
Herausgeber: Keul, István; Raman, Srilata
Religious Authority in South Asia
Generating the Guru
Herausgeber: Keul, István; Raman, Srilata
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This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts, polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations..
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This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts, polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations..
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 590g
- ISBN-13: 9781032259307
- ISBN-10: 1032259302
- Artikelnr.: 64103302
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 590g
- ISBN-13: 9781032259307
- ISBN-10: 1032259302
- Artikelnr.: 64103302
István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanuman and has edited volumes on tantra, Yoginis, Banaras and consecration rituals, and recently "Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia" (2021, Routledge). Srilata Raman is Professor of Hinduism in the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. Her monographs include Self-Surrender (Prapatti) to God in ¿r¿vai¿¿avism (2007, Routledge) and The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood (2022, Routledge). In addition, she has co-authored two edited volumes and published numerous articles on Tamil religion with a special focus on ¿r¿vai¿¿avism and the Tamil ¿aivasiddh¿nta.¿
1 Introduction: Contextualizing gurus in South Asia 2 How the guru lost his power: Public anxieties of tantric knowledge in the Sanskrit vet
la tales 3 The guru function in the emergence of Marathi literature in thirteenth-century India 4 Guru D
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in the perception of his direct disciples 5 Canonization of bhakti gurus: A missing link between Jai Singh II and Hari
candra 6 The emergence of the social in the service of the Guru 7 Between sagacity and scandal: Celibacy, sexuality, and a guru in nineteenth-century Punjab 8 The occluded guru, or the guru as gardener: C. Jinarajadasa's theosophical universe 9 Inversions of Kim: The Victorian childhood of J. Krishnamurti 10 The Vaidika's limits: Candräekharendra Sarasvat
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(1894-1994) and Tamil brahmin guruship 11 The fiction of ecumenical universalism: Where gurus do not matter 12 Between the letter and the spirit: Gandhi's orbit 13 Guru sex: Charisma, proxemic desire, and the haptic logics of the guru-disciple relationship 14 Manufacturing charisma in the metropolis 15 Narrating the spiritualized life 16 The gurus of a post-colonial education: An autobiographical note 17 Selected publications by Vasudha Dalmia
la tales 3 The guru function in the emergence of Marathi literature in thirteenth-century India 4 Guru D
d
in the perception of his direct disciples 5 Canonization of bhakti gurus: A missing link between Jai Singh II and Hari
candra 6 The emergence of the social in the service of the Guru 7 Between sagacity and scandal: Celibacy, sexuality, and a guru in nineteenth-century Punjab 8 The occluded guru, or the guru as gardener: C. Jinarajadasa's theosophical universe 9 Inversions of Kim: The Victorian childhood of J. Krishnamurti 10 The Vaidika's limits: Candräekharendra Sarasvat
Sv
m
(1894-1994) and Tamil brahmin guruship 11 The fiction of ecumenical universalism: Where gurus do not matter 12 Between the letter and the spirit: Gandhi's orbit 13 Guru sex: Charisma, proxemic desire, and the haptic logics of the guru-disciple relationship 14 Manufacturing charisma in the metropolis 15 Narrating the spiritualized life 16 The gurus of a post-colonial education: An autobiographical note 17 Selected publications by Vasudha Dalmia
1 Introduction: Contextualizing gurus in South Asia 2 How the guru lost his power: Public anxieties of tantric knowledge in the Sanskrit vet
la tales 3 The guru function in the emergence of Marathi literature in thirteenth-century India 4 Guru D
d
in the perception of his direct disciples 5 Canonization of bhakti gurus: A missing link between Jai Singh II and Hari
candra 6 The emergence of the social in the service of the Guru 7 Between sagacity and scandal: Celibacy, sexuality, and a guru in nineteenth-century Punjab 8 The occluded guru, or the guru as gardener: C. Jinarajadasa's theosophical universe 9 Inversions of Kim: The Victorian childhood of J. Krishnamurti 10 The Vaidika's limits: Candräekharendra Sarasvat
Sv
m
(1894-1994) and Tamil brahmin guruship 11 The fiction of ecumenical universalism: Where gurus do not matter 12 Between the letter and the spirit: Gandhi's orbit 13 Guru sex: Charisma, proxemic desire, and the haptic logics of the guru-disciple relationship 14 Manufacturing charisma in the metropolis 15 Narrating the spiritualized life 16 The gurus of a post-colonial education: An autobiographical note 17 Selected publications by Vasudha Dalmia
la tales 3 The guru function in the emergence of Marathi literature in thirteenth-century India 4 Guru D
d
in the perception of his direct disciples 5 Canonization of bhakti gurus: A missing link between Jai Singh II and Hari
candra 6 The emergence of the social in the service of the Guru 7 Between sagacity and scandal: Celibacy, sexuality, and a guru in nineteenth-century Punjab 8 The occluded guru, or the guru as gardener: C. Jinarajadasa's theosophical universe 9 Inversions of Kim: The Victorian childhood of J. Krishnamurti 10 The Vaidika's limits: Candräekharendra Sarasvat
Sv
m
(1894-1994) and Tamil brahmin guruship 11 The fiction of ecumenical universalism: Where gurus do not matter 12 Between the letter and the spirit: Gandhi's orbit 13 Guru sex: Charisma, proxemic desire, and the haptic logics of the guru-disciple relationship 14 Manufacturing charisma in the metropolis 15 Narrating the spiritualized life 16 The gurus of a post-colonial education: An autobiographical note 17 Selected publications by Vasudha Dalmia