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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben-Herut, Gil, editor.

Keune, Jon, editor.

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

Series:

Routledge South Asian religion series ; 13.

Routledge South Asian religion series ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bhakti--Social aspects--South Asia.

Bhakti.

Devotional literature, Hindi--Social aspects--South Asia.

Devotional literature, Hindi.

Other (Philosophy)--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Other (Philosophy).

Other (Philosophy)--Religious aspects.

Hinduism.

Bhakti in literature.

Social aspects.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

ix, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138495838

1138495832

OCLC:

1088905984