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A storm of songs : India and the idea of the bhakti movement / John Stratton Hawley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (438 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674425262
  • 067442526X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Storm of songsDDC classification:
  • 294.509 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1214.32.B53 H42 2015eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradays 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?
Summary: India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the "bhakti movement." Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 600 and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India's southernmost tip to its northern Himalayan heights, laying the religious bedrock upon which the modern state of India would be built. Challenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the historical and political contingencies that gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. Starting with the Mughals and their Kachvaha allies, North Indian groups looked to the Hindu South as a resource that would give religious and linguistic depth to their own collective history. Only in the early twentieth century did the idea of a bhakti "movement" crystallize--in the intellectual circle surrounding Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal. Interactions between Hindus and Muslims, between the sexes, between proud regional cultures, and between upper castes and Dalits are crucially embedded in the narrative, making it a powerful political resource. A Storm of Songs ponders the destiny of the idea of the bhakti movement in a globalizing India. If bhakti is the beating heart of India, this is the story of how it was implanted there--and whether it can survive. (Publisher).
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)958521

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. The Bhakti Movement and Its Discontents -- 2. The Transit of Bhakti -- 3. The Four Sampradays 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?

India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the "bhakti movement." Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 600 and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India's southernmost tip to its northern Himalayan heights, laying the religious bedrock upon which the modern state of India would be built. Challenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the historical and political contingencies that gave birth to the concept of the bhakti movement. Starting with the Mughals and their Kachvaha allies, North Indian groups looked to the Hindu South as a resource that would give religious and linguistic depth to their own collective history. Only in the early twentieth century did the idea of a bhakti "movement" crystallize--in the intellectual circle surrounding Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal. Interactions between Hindus and Muslims, between the sexes, between proud regional cultures, and between upper castes and Dalits are crucially embedded in the narrative, making it a powerful political resource. A Storm of Songs ponders the destiny of the idea of the bhakti movement in a globalizing India. If bhakti is the beating heart of India, this is the story of how it was implanted there--and whether it can survive. (Publisher).

In English.

Print version record.