Research Catalog

Title

Regional communities of devotion in South Asia : insiders, outsiders, and interlopers / edited by Gil Ben-Herut, Jon Keune and Anne Monius.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ben-Herut, Gil
• Keune, Jon
• Monius, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1964-2019

Description

ix, 197 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Routledge South Asian religion series ; volume 13

Uniform Title

Routledge South Asian religion series ; 13.

Subject

• Bhakti > Social aspects > South Asia
• Devotional literature, Hindi > Social aspects > South Asia
• Other (Philosophy) > Religious aspects > Hinduism
• Bhakti
• Bhakti in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Vaiṣṇavas, annihilating Jains : two religious others in early Kannada Śivabhakti 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 saṃprādaya and its "others" / Jeremy G. Morse -- Lost in the lake : and his others / Philip Lutgendorf -- Are there atheists in potholes? Mīmāṃsakas debate the path of bhakti / Anand Venkatkrishnan.

Call Number

JFE 19-10510

ISBN

• 9781138495838
• 1138495832
• 9781351023375 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351023368 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351023351 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351023382 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019012318

OCLC

1088905984

Title

Regional communities of devotion in South Asia : insiders, outsiders, and interlopers / edited by Gil Ben-Herut, Jon Keune and Anne Monius.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge South Asian religion series ; volume 13

Routledge South Asian religion series ; 13.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ben-Herut, Gil, editor.

Keune, Jon, editor.

Monius, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1964-2019, editor.

Other Form:

Ebook version : 9781351023368

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10510