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Bhakti and Embodiment
Language: en
Pages: 553
Authors: Barbara A. Holdrege
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity
The Embodiment of Bhakti
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Karen Pechilis Prentiss
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book offers an interpretive history of bhakti, an influential religious perspective in Hinduism. Prentiss argues that although bhakti is mentioned in every
Refiguring the Body
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Barbara A. Holdrege
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-28 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particu
Interpreting Devotion
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Karen Pechilis
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious de
The Embodiment of Bhakti
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Karen Pechilis
Categories: Bakhti in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In this interpretive history of bhakti, both chronicle and comparison are used to identify and analyze bhakti as understood by various Tamil Siva-bhakti authors