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Author : Greg Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Bhakti Studies written by Greg Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedhelm Hardy
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838165
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Viraha Bhakti written by Friedhelm Hardy and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord Krsna abandoned his earthly mistresses who then spent their days of separation pining for his return. This powerful theme found expression not only in myth but also in the devotion and poetry of a religious culture that evolved in South India. From the fifth century A.D., the Tamils absorbed many elements from the classical traditions of the North, such as yoga, the temple worship and Krsna myths, and the results were unique blends of the two civilizations. Viraha-bhakti, as the author styles this type of Krsna religion, imbued the theme of separation with erotic and ecstatic features and evolved as one of the highlights of Indian religion and culture. The present work is a detailed study of the multifarious origins of Viraha-bhakti in South India and its developments up to the point at which it entered the pan-Indian scene. The study suggests a revision of the monolithic image of Indian religion implied in much scholarly literature. It differentiates a great variety of interacting traditions and milieux and demonstrates the dynamism of Indian culture. By identifying a specific type of religion and reflecting on its significance, the author attempts, at the same time, to go beyond purely textual and historical considerations. Thus the book will be of interest to any student of Indian religion and culture.
Author : Winand M. Callewaert
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447035248
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)
Download or read book According to Tradition written by Winand M. Callewaert and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Global South Asia
ISBN 13 : 9780295745503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Bhakti and Power written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Global South Asia. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as "personal devotion," bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn down in the name of bhakti, while others have been built simultaneously. Bhakti and Power provides an accessible entry into key debates around issues such as these, presenting voices and vignettes from the sixth century to the present and from many parts of India's cultural landscape. Written by a wide range of engaged scholars, this volume showcases one of the most influential concepts in Indian history--still a major force in the present day.
Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317669096
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Bhakti and Embodiment written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.
Author : Jessica Frazier
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472567161
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies written by Jessica Frazier and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies, this Companion offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study in this area. Now available in paperback, The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, valuably, how the various topics intersect through detailed reading paths. Featuring a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams summarizing content, this is the essential tool for anyone working in Hindu Studies.
Author : Chinmayi Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies in the Evolution of Bhakti Cult with Special Reference to Vallabha School written by Chinmayi Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karel Werner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136774610
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Love Divine written by Karel Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the nature and function of bhakti or devotional involvement in religious practice in India in areas where it is seldom sought or where its existence has been doubted or even denied.
Author : Patton E. Burchett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548834
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A Genealogy of Devotion written by Patton E. Burchett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism. A Genealogy of Devotion illuminates the complex historical factors at play in the growth of bhakti in Sultanate and Mughal India through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature. Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett’s work explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North Indian communities. Focusing on the Rāmānandī bhakti community and the tantric Nāth yogīs, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility—an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition—that was often critical of tantric and yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era Orientalist depictions of bhakti as “religion” and tantra as “magic.” Providing a broad historical view of bhakti, tantra, and yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly conceptions of them, A Genealogy of Devotion offers a bold new narrative of the history of religion in India.
Author : Karen Pechilis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136507051
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Devotion written by Karen Pechilis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and present-day festival publics. The book focuses on the female poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār, whose poetry is devotional in nature. It discusses the biography written on the poet six centuries after her lifetime, and suggests ways of interpreting Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār’s poetry without using the categories and events promoted by her biographer, in order to engage her own thoughts as they are communicated through the poetry attributed to her. In the same way that the biographer made the poet ‘speak’ to his present day, the book looks at how festivals held today make both the poetry and the biography relevant to the present day. By discussing how poetry, story and festival provide distinctive yet overlapping interpretations of the saint, this book reveals the selections and priorities of interpreters in the making of a living tradition. It is an accessible contribution to students and scholars of religion, Indian history and women’s studies.
Author : Bertold Spuler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004041905
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Oriental Studies written by Bertold Spuler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1975 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orlando O. Espín
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814658567
Total Pages : 1566 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (585 download)
Download or read book An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies written by Orlando O. Espín and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the gamut from "Aaron" to "Zwingli," this dictionary includes nearly 3,000 entries written by about sixty authors, all of whom are specialists in their various theological and religious disciplines. The editors have designed the dictionary especially to aid the introductory-level student with instant access to definitions of terms likely to be encountered in, but not to substitute for, classroom presentations or reading assignments. - Publisher.
Author : Samrat Schmiem Kumar
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643501307
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Bhakti - the Yoga of Love written by Samrat Schmiem Kumar and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transrational Peaces is a new approach in contemporary Peace Research. It considers the rational and the spiritual sphere of human perception to be essential for the understanding of peace. In this book the Austrian-Indian researcher Samrat Schmiem Kumar presents the Indian tradition of Bhakti Yoga, and demonstrates the value of Indian philosophy for contemporary discussions on peace. In the philosophy of Bhakti, life is a playful and aesthetic relationship between human and the cosmos. The book opens the field of Peace Studies beyond the well-known horizons of the discipline in Europe and the United States.
Author : Purushottama Bilimoria
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000918335
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Contemplative Studies & Jainism written by Purushottama Bilimoria and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as well as the Jain hermeneutical perspectives, which are employed in understanding its rich diversity. The volume illustrates a complex and nuanced understanding of the multifaceted category of Jain religious thought and practice. It offers a rare intrareligious dialogue within Jain traditions and at the same time, significantly broadens and enriches the field of Contemplative Studies to include an ancient, ascetic, non-theistic tradition. Meditation, yoga, ritual, prayer are common to all Indic spiritual traditions. By investigating these diverse, yet overlapping, categories one might obtain a sophisticated understanding of religious traditions that originally emerged in South Asia. Essays in this book demonstrate how these forms of praxis in Jainism, and the philosophies that anchor those practices, are interrelated, and when brought into dialogue, help to foster new tools for understanding a complex and variegated tradition such as Jain Dharma. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of religious and theological studies, contemplative studies, Jain studies, Hindu studies, consciousness studies, Yoga studies, Indian philosophy and religion, sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and South Asian studies, as well as general readers interested in the topic.
Author : Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479848697
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies written by Rachel Dwyer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race—have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the Indian subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this volume comprises over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to their respective fields of specialization, highlighting crucial issues and debates in a lucid and concise manner. Each concept is accompanied by a critical analysis of its trajectory and a succinct discussion of its significance in the academic arena as well as in the public sphere. Enhancing the shared framework of understanding about the Indian subcontinent, Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies will provide the reader with insights into vital debates about the region, underscoring the compelling issues emanating from colonialism and postcolonialism.
Author : Hasmukhlal Dhirajlal Sankalia
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9780861320882
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Studies in Indian Archaeology written by Hasmukhlal Dhirajlal Sankalia and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holly Hillgardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190455535
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Longing and Letting Go written by Holly Hillgardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we love God and others without our desires eclipsing the very beauty, integrity and diversity toward which we are drawn; that is, can we love without trying to possess? Spanning centuries, continents, and religious traditions, Longing and Letting Go looks to Christian writer Hadewijch and Hindu songstress Mirabai to explore their inextricable practices of longing and letting go, and more particularly, the interreligious possibilities of passionate non-attachment for an interconnected, pluralistic world.
