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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810695003321

Autore

Pechilis Karen

Titolo

The embodiment of bhakti / / Karen Pechilis Prentiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1999

ISBN

0-19-773897-4

1-280-47205-7

0-19-535190-8

1-4237-6033-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

294.5/4

Soggetti

Bhakti in literature

Bhakti - History

Hindu literature - History and criticism

Religious poetry, Tamil

Bhakti

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Part I: Images of Bhakti; ONE: Bhakti as Devotion; TWO: Bhakti as a Movement; Part II: Bodies of Poetry; THREE: Pilgrimage and Praise; FOUR: Defining a Community; Part III: Contours in Song, Sculpture, and Story; FIVE: Regional Voices through Song; SIX: Images of Tamil Bhaktas; Part IV: A Corpus of Hymns; SEVEN: Defining the Center of the Temple; EIGHT: The Tamil Śaiva Siddhānta; Concluding Remarks; Appendix A: Umāpati Civācāryār's Tevāra Arulmuraittirattu; Appendix B: Umāpati Civācāryār's Tiruvarutpayan; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work aims to offer an interpretive history of bhakti, an influential religious perspective in Hinduism. The author argues that although Bhakti is mentioned in every contemporary sourcebook on Indian religions, it still lacks an agreed-upon definition.