A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love -- 4. The View from Brindavan -- 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory -- 6....

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Autor principal: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- (Author)
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Livro
Idioma:Inglês
Serviço de pedido Subito: Pedir agora.
Verificar disponibilidade: HBZ Gateway
WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado em: Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Harvard University Press 2015
Em:Ano: 2015
Coletânea / Revista:De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
(Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão:B Índia / Hinduísmo / Bhakti / História
Classificações IxTheo:AG Vida religiosa
BK Hinduísmo
KBM Ásia
Outras palavras-chave:B Bhakti Social aspects History
B India & South Asia / Asia / HISTORY
Acesso em linha: Capa
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Parallel Edition:Não eletrônico
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Resumo:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love -- 4. The View from Brindavan -- 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory -- 6. A Nation of Bhaktas -- 7. What Should the Bhakti Movement Be? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal
Descrição do item:Includes bibliographical references and index
Descrição Física:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 438 Seiten)
ISBN:978-0-674-42526-2
Acesso:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4159/9780674425262