Tony K Stewart

The Final Word (eBook, ePUB)

The Caitanya Caritamrita and the Grammar of Religious Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

The Gaudiya Vaisnava movement is one of the most vibrant religious groups in all of South Asia. Unlike most devotional communities that flourished in 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Bengal, however, the group had no formal founder. Today its devotees are uniform in their devotion to the historical figure of Krishna Caitanya (1486-1533), whom they believe to be not just Krishna incarnate, but Radha and Krishna fused into a single androgynous form. But Caitanya neither founded the community that coalesced around him nor named a successor. Tony Stewart seeks to discover how, with no central leadership, no institutional authority, and no geographic center, a religious community nevertheless comes to successfully define itself, fix its canon and flourish. He finds the answer in the brilliant hagiographical exercise in Sanskrit and Bengali titled the Caitanya Caritamrita (CC) of Krishnadasa Kaviraja.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199889372
• Artikelnr.: 38139130

Autorenporträt

Tony K. Stewart is Professor of South Asian Religions and Literatures, North Carolina State University

Inhaltsangabe

* Abbreviations
Transliteration
Dating Systems
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Preface: Reconstructing the Life of a Text
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CHAPTERS
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Works Consulted
I. Hagiographies of K?i?h?a Caitanya
II. Vai??ava and Sahajiy? Texts Cited
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III. Monographs and Studies Cited
IV. Articles Cited
Index