Bhakti And The Bhakti Movement
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Bhakti And The Bhakti Movement
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Author : Krishna Sharma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Bhakti And The Bhakti Movement written by Krishna Sharma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Religion categories.
Description: This book makes a total departure from some well-established notions about bhakti and the Bhakti movement. It questions and rejects the current academic definition of bhakti and the portrayals of the Bhakti movement in the light of that definition. Trying to recapture the generic meaning of the term bhakti, the author postulates that bhakti by itself does not suggest any ideational or doctrinaire position. According to her, a restricted and erroneous definition of bhakti has served as the substratum for all theorisations about the Bhakti movement, when taken as a whole. What is reckoned as the Bhakti movement, she states, is an amalgam of a number of devotional movements of a divergent nature. A monolithic view of these can be taken only if their common denominator bhakti is understood in its generic sense. Not otherwise. In short, the author has called into question the whole conceptual framework and the basic terms of reference used hitherto for the study of bhakti and the Bhakti movement. This is significant since they have had the sanction of more than one hundred years of scholarship, and have not been questioned till now. She has done so on the strength of her being able to trace back the origins of the errors she has underlined. The author has tried to establish the fact that the accepted academic definition of bhakti is a modern construction; and that it was artificially formulated by certain Western Indologists of the nineteenth century with the aid of criteria which had no relevance in the context of Hinduism. The process of its formulation has been examined historiographically in this critique to show how it had gradually taken shape between 1846 and 1909. The reasons for its subsequent incorporation in modern Indian scholarship have also been made clear. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach in this book, Dr. Sharma has grappled with many vital issues related to the Bhakti theme. It is hoped that this erudite work would serve as a landmark in the study of bhakti and the Bhakti movement.
The Historical Development Of The Bhakti Movement In India
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Author : Iwao Shima
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Historical Development Of The Bhakti Movement In India written by Iwao Shima and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Bhakti categories.
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Bhakti Religion In North India
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Author : David N. Lorenzen
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1994-11-09
Bhakti Religion In North India written by David N. Lorenzen and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-11-09 with Religion categories.
In India, religion continues to be an absolutely vital source for social as well as personal identity. All manner of groups--political, occupational, and social--remain grounded in specific religious communities. This book analyzes the development of the modern Hindu and Sikh communities in North India starting from about the fifteenth century, when the dominant bhakti tradition of Hinduism became divided into two currents: the sagun and the nirgun. The sagun current, led mostly by Brahmins, has remained dominant in most of North India and has served as the ideological base of the development of modern Hindu nationalism. Several chapters explore the rise of this religious and political movement, paying particular attention to the role played by devotion to Ram. Alternative trends do exist in sagun tradition, however, and are represented here by chapters on the low-caste saint Chokhamel and the tantric sect founded by Kina Ram. The nirgun current, led mostly by persons of Ksand artisan castes, formed the base of both the Sikh community, founded by Guru Nanak, and of various non-Brahmin sectarian movements derived from such saints as Kabir, Raidas, Dadu, and Shiv Dayal Singh. Two chapters discuss the formation of a distinctive Sikh theology and a Sikh community identity separate from that of the Hindus. Other chapters discuss the validity of the sagun-nirgun distinction within Hindu tradition and the interplay of social and religious ideas in nirgun hagiographic texts and in sectarian movements such as the Adi Dharma Mission and the Radhasoami Satsang.
A Genealogy Of Devotion
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Author : Patton E. Burchett
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-28
A Genealogy Of Devotion written by Patton E. Burchett and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Religion categories.
In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism. A Genealogy of Devotion illuminates the complex historical factors at play in the growth of bhakti in Sultanate and Mughal India through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature. Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett’s work explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North Indian communities. Focusing on the Rāmānandī bhakti community and the tantric Nāth yogīs, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility—an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition—that was often critical of tantric and yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era Orientalist depictions of bhakti as “religion” and tantra as “magic.” Providing a broad historical view of bhakti, tantra, and yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly conceptions of them, A Genealogy of Devotion offers a bold new narrative of the history of religion in India.
Bhakti Poetry In Medieval India
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Author : Neeti M. Sadarangani
language : en
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Release Date : 2004
Bhakti Poetry In Medieval India written by Neeti M. Sadarangani and has been published by Sarup & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Bhakti categories.
This Text Is An Attempt To Reconstruct The Bhakti Movement From The 8Th Century Tamil Nadu To The 16Th Century Punjab, In Its Totality, As A Connected Organic Phenomenon And As Perhaps The Earliest Indian Voice Of Deconstructive Modern Thought.
Tradition And Modernity In Bhakti Movements
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Author : Lele
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-28
Tradition And Modernity In Bhakti Movements written by Lele and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-28 with Social Science categories.
The Bhakti Movement
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Author : P. Govinda Pillai
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-10-04
The Bhakti Movement written by P. Govinda Pillai and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Religion categories.
This is a Comprehensive Survey of the Bhakti Movement as it sprang in South India to spread across the subcontinent in independent and multifarious manifestations yet marked with amazing commonalities. Spanning a period of 11 centuries starting from the 6th CE, the movement encompassed in its sweep a vast range of dimensions; Social, political, economic, religious, cultural, linguistic, ethical and philosophical. Among the multifarious movements which contributed to the formation of India and its Culture, the Bhakti was undoubtedly the most pervasive and persistent, says the author. Besides its sweep and depth, what proved most remarkable about the movement was that it arose almost everywhere from the masses who belonged to the lowest class and castes. Though spirituality was its leitmotif, Bhakti proved to be a stirring song of the subaltern in their varied expressions of resistance and revolt. A seemingly conservative phenomenon became a potent weapon against entrenched hierarchies of orthodoxy and oppression, in a wonderful dialectical expression. This qualifies Bhakti movement to be reckoned on a par with European renaissance as it marked a massive upsurge in the societal value system to directly impact a range of fields like arts, politics, culture or religion. Even as he takes note of the elements of reactionary revivalism that also marked the Bhakti movement, the author convincingly argues that those of renaissance and progress far outweighed the former.
Bhakti Movement In Medieval India
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Author : Shahabuddin Iraqi
language : en
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Bhakti Movement In Medieval India written by Shahabuddin Iraqi and has been published by Manohar Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
This volume offers an in-depth study of the conflicting as well as cordial relationship of the leaders of different schools of Bhakti thought with the state and their approach to society, politics and administration. It also analyses the circumstances that led some of the spiritual movements to assume political and militant character.
Medieval Bhakti Movements In India
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Author : Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Medieval Bhakti Movements In India written by Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Bhakti categories.
Description: Although some aspects of the medieval bhakti movements are known or have been viewed by the historians from their own angles of vision, much remains to be known, understood and interpreted. The present volume, issued on the occasion of the Quincentenary of Mahaprabhu Sri Caitanya, is an attempt to understand a little more of the medieval bhakti movements of India. The contributors to the volume who have enthusiastically agreed to participate in this project are all specialists in their own fields and their valuable papers are expected to throw new light on many hitherto unknown or known features of the great historical movement, the far-reaching consequences of which are very much lively in the heart of the Indian masses even today. The contributors to this volume are Bimanbehari Majumdar, Niharranjan Ray, G.S. Chhabra, Manorama Kohli, G.V. Saroja, J.C. Jain, M.S. Ahluwalia, H.A. Qureshi, Manjula Bhattacharyya, Uma S. Deshpande, P.S. Mukharya, B.D. Gupta, Hafiz Md. Tahir Ali, N. Jagadesan, R. Champakalakshmi, S.K. Pathak, N. Subrahmanian, R. Meena, K.K. Kusuman, N.H. Kulkarnee, Prabhat Mukherjee, S.N. Sharma, Sarat Chandra Goswami, S. Dutta, N.N. Acharya, Bhaskar Chatterjee, Neal Delmonico, Sachin Majumdar, David Kopf and Pranabananda Jash. A detailed bibliography containing list of books and articles used by the contributors in preparing their papers and also other works pertaining to the bhakti concept has also been supplied. This handy volume has been edited by N.N. Bhattacharyya with an informative introduction.
Genesis Of The Bhakt Movement And Engagements With Slam
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Author : Mohammed Haneefa Thotty
language : tr
Publisher: Çamlıca Yayınları
Release Date : 2023-09-15
Genesis Of The Bhakt Movement And Engagements With Slam written by Mohammed Haneefa Thotty and has been published by Çamlıca Yayınları this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-15 with Religion categories.
Bhakti that offers salvation to Sanathana Dharma followers through ardent devotion and love to God, is considered as one of the three paths of Moksha and had triggered a popular movement that may had changed the course of Hinduism paving the way for two new religions; Sikhism and Lingayatism. Our work aims to explore and rightly present the genesis of Bhakti movement and contributions of Alvars and Nayanmars, who were often neglected in Bhakti literature. Since Islam entered south India and Bhakti originated there in the same period as well, and it shows great similarity between principles of Islam and Bhakti’s teachings on salvation, its methods and social structure, the work examines whether Islam had influenced or not. Therefore, the work will also contribute significantly to comprehend the genesis of Sufism and cross-religious synchronizations.