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Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Woman-Led Spiritual Movement (Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical) by Angela Rudert is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Shakti's New Voice is the first comprehensive study of Anandmurti Gurumaa, a widely popular contemporary female guru from north India known for offering spiritual teachings and music on satellite television and the Internet. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and religious-historical research--as well as unexpected and unprecedented outsider contact with the guru--Angela Rudert offers an intimate portrait of "Gurumaa" that will be of interest to the guru's admirers as well as to scholars. To examine Gurumaa's innovation, Rudert turns to examples drawn from fieldwork research in the guru's ashram and from other locations in India and in the United States. These examples specifically discuss Gurumaa's religious pluralism, her gender activism, and her embrace of new media, in order to illuminate elements of continuity and change within the time-honored South Asian tradition of guru-bhakti, devotion to the guru. Raised in a Sikh family, educated in a Catholic convent school and understood to have attained her enlightenment in Vrindavan, the famous Hindu pilgrimage site of Lord Krishna's divine play, Gurumaa refuses identification with any particular religious tradition, or "ism,
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- Author
- Angela Rudert
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781498547543
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Science, Spirituality
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