Bhakti
in Current Research, 2001-2003: Proceedings
of the Ninth International Conference on Early Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, Heidelberg,
23-26 July 2003
By-
Monika Horstmann (ed)
The
present volume forms the ninth in a series of proceedings of the triennial
International Conference on Early Devotional Literature in New Indo-Aryan
Languages which was held in Heidelberg, Germany in 2003. The conference covered
a wide range of topics relating to the Bhakti tradition. The volume unites
twenty contributions which reflect original research carried out by their
authors in the period between 2001 and 2003.
For
all their diversity, not a few of the articles bring to mind that the term Bhakti
is a locus where various concepts and often composite religious identities
meet. As the focus of the
conference was on the northern vernacular traditions, with no Sanskrit and little Dravidian material being discussed, the contributions represent facets of a broad South Asian religious and literary complex, of which Indic and Islamicate traditions as well as a whole gamut of literary languages is consitutive.
conference was on the northern vernacular traditions, with no Sanskrit and little Dravidian material being discussed, the contributions represent facets of a broad South Asian religious and literary complex, of which Indic and Islamicate traditions as well as a whole gamut of literary languages is consitutive.
The
contributions address literary genres and historiography, manuscriptology,
painting, hagiography, various sects, musical practice as related to Bhakti
authors and sects, and the interface of Yoga and the Indic and Islamicate
traditions, respectively.
An
indispensable volume for scholars of South Asian religion and culture.
Monika
Horstmann (Boehm-Tettelbach) is a retired professor of Modern South
Asian Studies at the South Asia Institute, Universtiy of Heidelberg, Germany.
ISBN 81-7304-694-8 2006 324p. Rs.850/ Pounds 65
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