Item #181828 The Embodiment of Bhakti. Karen Pechilis-Prentiss.
The Embodiment of Bhakti
The Embodiment of Bhakti

The Embodiment of Bhakti

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. White boards with black lettering and illustration, gray and white spine with white lettering; xi, 265 pp, VG+ (previous owner's name is inside front cover, book is otherwise like new). Item #181828
ISBN: 9780195128130

"Bhakti, an influential religious perspective in India, has long been of interest to scholars; from the orientalists, who drew upon Sanskrit sources in their definition of bhakti as devotion to a personal deity, to modern scholars, who have explored bhakti poetry and the legends of its authors through sources in the regional languages of India. 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 and authorities."--Publisher's description. Contents include: pt. I. Images of Bhakti. 1. Bhakti as Devotion. 2. Bhakti as a Movement -- pt. II. Bodies of Poetry. 3. Pilgrimage and Praise. 4. Defining a Community -- pt. III. Contours in Song, Sculpture, and Story. 5. Regional Voices through Song. 6. Images of Tamil Bhaktas -- pt. IV. A Corpus of Hymns. 7. Defining the Center of the Temple. 8. The Tamil Saiva Siddhanta. App. A. Umapati Civacaryar's Tevara Arulmuraittirattu -- App. B. Umapati Civacaryar's Tiruvarutpayan.

OCLC: 40298352

Price: $100.00