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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

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Author

Gil Ben-Herut; Jon Keune; Anne E. Monius

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351023375

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science, Philosophy