P. Govinda Pillai

The Bhakti Movement

Renaissance or Revivalism?

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a Comprehensive Survey of the Bhakti Movement as it sprang in South India to spread across the subcontinent in independent and multifarious manifestations yet marked with amazing commonalities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 144mm x 224mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781032364711
• ISBN-10: 1032364718
• Artikelnr.: 64685198

Autorenporträt

P. Govinda Pillai (b.1926) graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He became a full time political, social and cultural activist after his student life and was elected four times to the Kerala State Legislature, first as a representative of the Communist Party of India and later, the Communist Party of India (M). He was the Chief Editor of Desabhimani, the CPI(M)'s mouthpiece in Malayalam, for more than two decades. He has headed many institutions including the Kerala State Film Corporation, Centre for Imaging Technology, Kerala State Press Akademi etc. He is the author of about 35 books based on a range of subjects including Marxist asesthetics, literarture and culture, social movements and science.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1. The Cult and Movement 2. Declining
Buddhism, Resurging Hinduism 3. The Problems of Origin and Nature 4. The
Chronology and Geography 5. Social and Political Background 6. 'Kali': A
Curse or Blessing? 7. The Warring Princes and Foreign Conquerors 8. The
Triumvirate and Duumvirate 9. Heartland Moves South PART II: A
THOUSAND-YEAR STORY 10. Bhagavata Purana 11. The First Blossoms from the
Deep South 12. Hindu Reformation 13. Nayanars 14. The Alvars 15. Vridhim
Karnatake Gata 16. Bhakta Mira 17. Surdas: The Blind Singer 18. Ramananda
and the Ramanandis 19. Varkaries, Vithoba and Pandharpur 20. Chokhamela:
The Untouchable Saint 21. Tulsidas and Rama Bhakti 22. Guru Nanak and the
Sikhs 23. Sufism and Bhakti 24. Bhakti and Fanaticism in Kashmir 25. Assam
and Sankara Deva's Vaishnavite Reforms 26. Chaitanya and Bengal Vaishnavism
27. Many Streams of Bhakti in Andhra 28. Dadupanthis and Panchavani 29.
Kerala: A Latecomer 30. Conclusion