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Precarious joy: Meena Alexander, postsecularism, and bhakti poetry
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Manav Ratti
Literature and Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 181–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frae029
Published: 30 November 2024
... is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract This article compares the poetry of Meena Alexander with India’s traditions of bhakti poetry and reads...
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Published: 26 June 2024
...Monika Horstmann, Yoga and Bhakti In: Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India . Edited by: Imre Bangha and Danuta Stasik, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192889348.003.0004 The Nāth Siddha tradition...
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Published: 26 June 2024
... with various orthodoxies, these images are all but products of continuous (re)contextualization of Kamāl. Similar to Kabīrian textual tradition, the tradition related to Kamāl is also a living and growing one. bhakti devotion Caturvedī Paraśurām Kabīr Kamāl Lorenzen David N Sufism Thukral Uma yoga Ādi...
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Exploring the Relationship between Bhakti, Bhakta, and Yoga in the Prabodhcandroday Nāṭak by Brajvāsīdās
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Rosina Pastore
Published: 26 June 2024
... between Bhakti, Bhakta, and Yoga in the Prabodhcandroday Nāṭak by Brajvāsīdās In: Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India . Edited by: Imre Bangha and Danuta Stasik, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192889348.003.0016...
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The Society of Devotees
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Gil Ben-Herut
Published: 27 September 2018
... marital vow guru initiation liṅga Śiva’s emblem marriage and wedding non Śaiva Kauśika Mahādēviyakkana Ragaḷe Hampeya Harihara Śrīśailam Basava Purāṇamu Pālkuriki Sōmanātha Narayana Rao Velcheru Pālkuriki Sōmanātha Paṇḍitārādhya Āṇṭāḷ bhakti devotional traditions Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār Mīrābāī...
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A. J. Appasamy and his Reading of Rāmānuja: A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment
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Brian Philip Dunn
Published online: 22 December 2016
Published in print: 08 December 2016
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Shakta Bhakti Devotion to the Goddess
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June McDaniel
Published: 05 August 2004
...This chapter looks at the subtypes of bhakti and examines some Shakta goddesses and their worship. The four types of bhakti—the folk type involving coerced devotion and obedience to a local goddess; the emotional type involving passionate love of a devotee for a loving mother or daughter...
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Published: 16 August 2023
... trajectory of domestication and sublimation, it argues that Śrīvidyā’s development is a multifaceted process at the intersection of Kaula, tantric, Vedic, and bhakti practices. References Avalon, Arthur. 1913 . Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāṇa Tantra ...
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Published: 13 October 2014
... Bhakti dictionaries hagiography Kabir Mira Bai Nanak Guru painters panth puranas Raidas Ramanand Sants Sufis Surdas Arjan Guru Dadu panth oral Sikhs Vallabha vārta diglossia Hindavi Hindi Islamic multilingual multilingualism Padmāvat tazkira Urdu Avadhi Braj Bhasha...
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Savoring Theopoetics
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Gloria Maité Hernández
Published: 22 July 2021
...While the notion of theopoetic is modern, the concept existed long before the term was coined by twentieth-century theologians. Chapter 1 introduces in detail John of the Cross’s notion of gustar a Dios (to savor God) and the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava concept of madhura bhakti rasa ...
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Published: 07 May 2020
... thought as an outlook that fully supports his pessimism and shows that Schopenhauer remained uninformed about how the Vedantic tradition includes the practice of bhakti (devotion, love). This is not exactly the path of Schopenhauerian asceticism but is an alternative to asceticism...
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Published: 04 December 2006
...This chapter describes the Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha of Woodside, Queens. The guru venerated in the title is one of the most important religious voices to have emerged from the “bottom” of Indian caste society, and is a sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint whose memory is alive across...
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The Spiritual Aspect
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André Padoux
Published: 07 March 2017
... giving it a new life with new, often very interesting, developments. This chapter first considers the place of mysticism in ritual before discussing the link between mystical states and the yogic body. It also explains the importance of divine grace and bhakti in Tantra, along...
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Remaking Marathi: Modern Histories of Language and V. L. Bhave’s Mahārāṣhṭra Sāraswat
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Prachi Deshpande
Published: 18 July 2023
... Lakshman Marathi literature anthologizing colonialism modernization Mumbai Sanskrit vernacular Chiplunkar Vishnushastri mythology poetry Rajwade V K Tukaram Adivasis Pollock Sheldon Arabic education Persian Persianate Savarkar Veer social reform dialect modernism romanticism bhakti...
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Making Space for Sant Texts: Orature, Literary History, and World Literature
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Francesca Orsini
Published: 20 July 2023
... saint poet singers songs Tagore Rabindranath Unnao village Agrawal Purushottam archive bhakti magazines Malukdas Novetzke Christian space taste s Barber Karin Bhagvan Din Lala Kavya kāvya poetry in verse or prose literary history Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o orality orature poetic idioms...
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An Encounter with the Light of Truth
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Kerry P. C. San Chirico
Published: 20 April 2022
... sacraments saṅskārs prakaṭ tapas bhakti pramāṇ Bhagavān Īśvar Prabhu Bhagavad Gītā Vaiṣṇavism My name means “light of truth,” but I was the light of lies. —Satya Prakash Who was that “original” Khrist Bhakta referred to by the principal of Vishwa Jyoti Gurukul—that man whose...
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Beyond Diversity—Precarious Belonging and Religious Conjunctions: Dalits in Dharavi
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Martin Fuchs
Published: 30 May 2023
... in history of Bombay community Marathas middle class es Scheduled Casts Tribes Christians Christianity Christian churches religious diversity plurality risk bhakti city cities Ambedkar Bhimrao R Buddhists Buddhism Durga education Jaiswara photographs photograhy pictures Sai Baba Shirdi Shiva...
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Published: 20 July 2023
...Mirabai . Nancy M. Martin, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195153897.003.0002 The earliest references to the Hindu woman saint Mirabai are found in the songs of other saints and the hagiographic literature of devotional Hinduism (bhakti...
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Conclusion
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Nancy M. Martin
Published: 20 July 2023
... relevance in post-colonial and global contexts. heroines Mira songs Behari Bankey authenticity Chittor Mirabai Meera bhakti song poetry historiography oral tradition Hindi postcolonial India gender Having examined the earliest available information about Mirabai—the written artifacts...
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Commencing and Concluding the Carita of Krishna: The First and Final Books of Villi’s Pāratam and Chauhan’s Mahābhārat
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Sohini Sarah Pillai
Published: 22 February 2024
... Krishna one hundred times during Yudhishthira’s rājasūya ceremony and unknowingly partakes in a form of bhakti called dveṣa bhakti (hate-devotion), the 119 deity beheads Shishupala and grants him salvation. In this scene in the Tamil text...
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