A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love -- 4. The View from Brindavan -- 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory -- 6....
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
Harvard University Press
2015
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| Dans: | Année: 2015 |
| Collection/Revue: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Inde
/ Hindouisme
/ Bhakti
/ Histoire
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BK Hindouisme KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Bhakti
Social aspects
History
B India & South Asia / Asia / HISTORY |
| Accès en ligne: |
Couverture Cover (Verlag) Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradbys and the Commonwealth of Love -- 4. The View from Brindavan -- 5. Victory in the Cities of Victory -- 6. A Nation of Bhaktas -- 7. What Should the Bhakti Movement Be? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 067442526X |
| Accès: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4159/9780674425262 |