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Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers (in English)
Gil Ben-Herut
(Illustrated by)
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Jon Keune
(Illustrated by)
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Anne Monius
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Routledge
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Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers (in English) - Ben-Herut, Gil ; Keune, Jon ; Monius, Anne
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Synopsis "Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers (in English)"
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. The sheer diversity of South Asia's devotional traditions renders them an especially rich resource for examining social and religious fault lines, thereby furthering scholarly understanding of how communalism and sectarianism originate and develop on local or regional levels, with wider geographic implications.Bringing together studies from a subcontinent-wide variety of linguistic, geographical, and historical frames for the first time, this book will be an important contribution to the literature on bhakti and will be of interest to scholars of South Asian Religions and Asian Religions.
