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A Genealogy of Devotion : Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India by Patton E. Burchett; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 yogī s, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility―an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition―

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Author

Patton E. Burchett;

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231190329

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Religion