Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India

ISBN-13: 9780197574836 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 332 str.

Jon Keune

Recenzje

Keune brings insight and humor to this study of how sharing food across religious spaces in sacred biographies and devotional texts reveals important considerations about social equality and caste, which he evocatively calls 'the bhakti-caste question'. Spanning archives, literature, manuscripts, visual culture, and ethnography, Keune delves deeply into the possible ethics of devotionalism in India over several centuries, and this book should be of interest to anyone who cares about the politics of power at the intersections of religion, food, and society.

O autorze

Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He held postdoctoral fellowships in Houston and Göttingen, and he earned a PhD from Columbia University. His research focuses on religion, society, and history in India and with a comparative eye to central Europe and East Asia. As co-founder of the Regional Bhakti Scholars Network in 2013, he is also deeply involved in collaborative research.