Mirabai: the making of a saint
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she cou...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mīrābāī 1498-1547
B India / Bhakti / Female saint / Vārakarī |
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Asian History
B Literature: history & criticism B Asiatische Geschichte B RELIGION / Generals / Hinduism B Geschichte der Religion B General & world history B History of religion B Hinduism B Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik B Asia / Generals / HISTORY B RELIGION / Hinduism / History B Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte B Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter B Literary studies: poetry & poets B World / HISTORY B LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry |
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| Summary: | Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities. Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today |
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| ISBN: | 0195153901 |