Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India

ISBN-13: 9780415615860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 258 str.

Karen Pechilis

Opis

This text explores devotional religion through three interpretive gestures: the devotional subjectivity inscribed in the classical poetry of the female saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar; the domestication of her persona in an authoritative medieval hagiography; and present-day tellings of her story in ritual dramatizations.

O autorze

Karen Pechilis is Professor of Religious Studies and NEH Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Drew University, USA. She is an experienced theorist of devotion and translator of Tamil Śiva-bhakti hymns and their scholarly interpretation. Her previous books are The Embodiment of Bhakti (1999) and The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States (2004).