Regional communities of devotion in south asia : insiders, outsiders and interlopers / Edited by Gil Ben-Herut, John Keune and E. Monius

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Language: English Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2020Description: vii, 192 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781138495838 (hbd)

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DDC classification:

294.551 REG

Summary: This book explores the key motif of the religious other in devotional ( bhakti ) literatures and practices from across the Indian subcontinent unmasks processes of representation that involve adoption, appropriation, and rejection of different social and religious agents. The book reconsiders and challenges inherited notions of the bhakta ’s or devotee’s other. Considering the ways in which bhakti might be conceived as having an inter-regional impact―as a force, discourse, network, mythology, ethic―the book critically engages with extant scholarly narratives about what bhakti is and traces when and how those narratives have been used.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Book	Chanakya University Knowledge Centre Chanakya University Knowledge Centre	Chanakya University Knowledge Centre	Chanakya University	294.551 REG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		CU12584

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This book explores the key motif of the religious other in devotional ( bhakti ) literatures and practices from across the Indian subcontinent unmasks processes of representation that involve adoption, appropriation, and rejection of different social and religious agents. The book reconsiders and challenges inherited notions of the bhakta ’s or devotee’s other. Considering the ways in which bhakti might be conceived as having an inter-regional impact―as a force, discourse, network, mythology, ethic―the book critically engages with extant scholarly narratives about what bhakti is and traces when and how those narratives have been used.

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