Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia (eBook, PDF)

Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers
Redaktion: Ben-Herut, Gil; Monius, Anne; Keune, Jon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the key motif of the religious Other in devotional (bhakti) literatures and practices from across the Indian subcontinent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351023375
• Artikelnr.: 57160466

Autorenporträt

Gil Ben-Herut is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, US. Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, US. Anne E. Monius is a Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1 From foolish ascetics to enemies of
iva: the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil
aiva literature; 2 K
l
dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land; 3 Arguing with Vai
avas, annihilating Jains: two religious others in early Kannada
ivabhakti hagiographies; 4 Bhakti Inc., Kerala: alienated selves and assimilated others; 5 The challenge of the swappable other: a framework for interpreting otherness in bhakti texts; 6 The political field of bhakti at the emergence of Marathi literature in premodern India; 7 The Datta säprad
ya and its others; 8 Lost in the lake: Tuls
d
s and his others; 9 Are there atheists in potholes? M
m
sakas debate the path of bhakti