Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers

ISBN-13: 9781032091051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Gil Ben-Herut; Jon Keune; Anne Monius

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction; 1 From foolish ascetics to enemies of Śiva: the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil Śaiva literature; 2 Kālī dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land; 3 Arguing with Vaiṣṇavas, annihilating Jains: two religious others in early Kannada Śivabhakti 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 saṃpradāya and its others; 8 Lost in the lake: Tulsīdās and his others; 9 Are there atheists in potholes? Mīmāṃsakas debate the path of bhakti

O autorze

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.