Regional communities of devotion in South Asia insiders, outsiders, and interlopers / edited by Gil Ben-Herut, Jon Keune and Anne E. Monius.
| Other author | Ben-Herut, Gil. |
| Other author | Keune, Jon. |
| Other author | Monius, Anne E. (Elizabeth), 1964-2019. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
| Description | ix, 197 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge South Asian religion series ; volume 13 |
| Contents | From foolish ascetics to enemies of Siva : the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil Saiva literature / Anne Monius -- Kali dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land / Elaine Craddock -- Arguing with Vai£̀Đ£̀¿avas, annihilating Jains : two religious others in early Kannada ¿¿ivabhakti hagiographies / Gil Ben-Herut -- Bhakti Inc., Kerala : alienated selves and assimilated others / Rich Freeman -- The challenge of the swappable other: a framework for interpreting otherness in bhakti texts / Jon Keune -- The political field of bhakti at the emergence of Marathi literature in premodern India / Christian Lee Novetzke -- The Datta sa£̀¿pr♯¿daya and its "others" / Jeremy G. Morse -- Lost in the lake : and his others / Philip Lutgendorf -- Are there atheists in potholes? M♯±m♯¿£̀¿sakas debate the path of bhakti / Anand Venkatkrishnan. |
| Abstract | "This book explores the key motif of the religious Other in devotional (bhakti) literatures and practices from across the Indian subcontinent. The primary aim of this book is to reconsider and challenge inherited notions of the bhakta's or devotee's Other and unmask processes of representation that involve adoption, appropriation, and rejection of different social and religious agents. The book considers the ways in which bhakti might be conceived as having an inter-regional impact--as a force, discourse, network, mythology, ethic--while critically engaging with extant scholarly narratives about what bhakti is and tracing when and how those narratives have been used. The sheer diversity of South Asia's devotional traditions renders them an especially rich resource for examining social and religious fault lines, thereby furthering scholarly understanding of how communalism and sectarianism originate and develop on local or regional levels, with wider geographic implications. Bringing together studies from a subcontinent-wide variety of linguistic, geographical, and historical frames for the first time, this book will be an important contribution to the literature on bhakti, and it will be of interest to scholars of South Asian Religion and Asian Religion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019012318 |
| ISBN | 9781138495838 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |