Research Catalog

Title

Devotional literature in South Asia : current research, 1985-1988 : papers of the Fourth Conference on Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, held at Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1-4 September 1988 / edited by R.S. McGregor.

Author

Conference on Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages (4th : 1988 : Wolfson College)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

McGregor, R. S. (Ronald Stuart)

Description

xvi, 322 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume addresses recent research topics within the field of bhakti literature, the devotional poetry and other compositions of devotional character in the earlier literature of the modern South Asian languages. Its papers range from the roots of the bhakti tradition in the early history of Krsna to its modern adaptations in nineteenth- and twentieth- century culture. Geographically, they span Bengal to Sind, Panjab to Maharashtra." "Contemporary study of the modern Indian languages has broadened the scope of scholarship to include religion in more recent times, and in a mixed society, against the background of earlier culture. Here, materials in six modern Asian languages are discussed: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi in its main literary forms, Marathi, Panjabi, and Sindhi; with assessment also of material in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Chinese. In addition to studies of literary (and orally transmitted) works in the Krsna or Rama traditions, and of Sufi compositions and their interpretation, there are papers on the early history of sacred sites, the emergence of the religion of Rama, later religious formulations throughout the subcontinent, and the interaction of the Islamic and the Hindu."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

University of Cambridge oriental publications ; no. 46

Uniform Title

University of Cambridge oriental publications no. 46.

Subject

• Hindu literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Islamic literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Bhakti in literature > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sacred places and sites -- Govardhan, the Eater hill / Charlotte Vaudeville -- Manbhaus' seat on Ramtek Hill / Hans Bakker -- Formulation and transmission of religious attitudes -- Singers' repertoires in western India / Winand M. Callewaert -- oral theology: Dadupanthi homilies / Monika Thiel-Horstmann -- Some aspects of the development of bhakti traditions, with especial reference to the Hindi poems attributed to Ramanand / Enzo Turbiani -- Hindu model of social organization and the bhakti movement: the example of Vallabha's sampradaya / Maya Burger -- Interaction between Islamic and Indian religious attitudes -- Sufi influence in the Ekanathi-bhagavat: some observations on the text and its historical context / H. van Skyhawk -- How a Muslim looks at Hindu bhakti / Peter Gaeffke -- Muslim devotional literature in Gujarati: Islam and bhakti / Francoise Mallison -- Ismaili ginans as devotional literature / Ali S. Asani -- Literary and religious traditions in Maharashtra -- grammar of bhakti: Pancavartika / V. D. Kulkarni -- Authorship and redactorship of the Jnandev Gatha / Catharina Kiehnle -- Matapitrbhakti: some aspects of the development of the Pundalika legend in Marathi literature / Erik Reenberg Sand -- Tukaram: the making of a saint / S. G. Tulpule -- Sadguru and the Holy Spirit / Christopher Shelke -- Special features of the Varkari cult as regards sadhana / G. Morje -- Some particular expressions of the Sufi presence in north India -- text of Alakh Bani / S. C. R. Weightman -- Kutuban's Miragavati: its content and interpretation / S. M. Pandey -- Krsnaite and Nath elements in the poetry of the eighteenth-century Panjabi Sinfi Bullhe Sah / Denis Matringe -- Some topics in the Krsna poetry of north India -- Three-three-two versus four-by-four: metrical frames for the padas of Surdas / K. E. Bryant -- Creative enumeration in the vinaya poetry of Surdas / John Stratton Hawley -- padas attributed to Nanddas / R. S. McGregor -- Synoptic and sectarian bhakti in the poetry of Dhruvdas / Rupert Snell -- Discussions of the Rama tradition in north and north-east India -- Taranisena: a parochialised devotional motif / W. L. Smith -- Tulsidas and Confucius / Jin Dinghan -- Modernisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Hariscandra of Banaras and the reassessment of Vaisnava bhakti in the late nineteenth century / Vasudha Dalmia-Luderitz -- reinterpretation of bhakti theology: from the Pustimarg to the Brahma Kumaris / R. K. Barz.

ISBN

0521413117

LCCN

^^^91013833^

OCLC

• 23356785
• SCSB-10744429

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library