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Seeing through texts : doing theology among the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India
- Title
- Seeing through texts : doing theology among the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India / Francis X. Clooney.
- Author
- Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PL4758.9.N3155 T53296 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 351 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Examines texts and commentaries in the Tamil-language SArivastradition of South India; about the general issues of text, vision, and narrative that such texts raise, and about the implications of these for a particular style of comparative theology.Seeing through Texts invites us into the world of south Indian Hinduism through a study of 100 songs of the Tiruvaymoli, the great masterpiece of the ninth-century Hindu saint Satkopan. These unique songs, dedicated to the Hindu god Visnu/Krsna, lead us through poetic and imaginative, philosophical and moral reflections on the nature of the self and the world, ancient myths and temple worship, and the mystical moods of longing, desire, and love in which one seeks, loses, and finds again the God who loves us first. The book is also a study of the interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli in the traditional Hindu Srivaisnava commentaries of the twelfth-fourteenth centuries, as well as a comparative theological study which explores the implication of the songs and their commentaries for readers from outside the Srivaisnava tradition.Francis X. Clooney, S. J. is Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College. He is the author of Theology after Vedanta, also published by SUNY Press, and of Thinking Ritual.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-342) and indexes.
- ISBN
- 0791429954
- 9780791429952
- 0791429962
- 9780791429969
- LCCN
- 95035858
- OCLC
- ocm33042704
- 33042704
- SCSB-2090532
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library