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

ISBN-13: 9781138495838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 198 str.

Gil Ben-Herut; Jon Keune; Anne E. 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