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Author Holdrege, Barbara A., 1950- author

Title Bhakti and embodiment : fashioning divine bodies and devotional bodies in Kṛṣṇa bhakti / Barbara A. Holdrege
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Series Routledge Hindu studies series
RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series.
Contents ""Erotic-Ecstatic Devotion: The Embodied Bhakti of the BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a""""Bodies of Devotion, Bodies of Bliss: The Embodied Aesthetics of Bhakti in the Gauá??Ä«ya Tradition""; ""Aesthetics Reimagined as Bhakti-Rasa""; ""SÄ?dhana-Bhakti: Re-figuring Bodily Identities""; ""The Gauá??Ä«ya Challenge to Advaita VedÄ?nta and PÄ?tañjala Yoga Revisited""; ""3 BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a as Text-AvatÄ?ra: From PurÄ?á¹?a-Veda to Embodiment of BhagavÄ?n""; ""Åšruti and Smá¹?ti: The Brahmanical Canon of ÅšÄ?stras""; ""Veda, Åšruti, and Smá¹?ti""; ""Vedacizing Strategies""
""The Gauá??Ä«ya SampradÄ?ya""""1 The Limitless Forms of Ká¹?á¹£á¹?a: Fashioning Divine Bodies""; ""The Absolute Body and Its Endless Manifestations: The Gauá??Ä«ya Discourse of Divine Embodiment""; ""BhagavÄ?nâ€?s Absolute Body and Self-Referral Play""; ""The Gauá??Ä«ya Challenge to Advaita VedÄ?nta and PÄ?tañjala Yoga""; ""Ananta-RÅ«pa: The Limitless Forms of the Absolute Body""; ""The Gauá??Ä«ya and the ÅšrÄ«vaiá¹£á¹?avas: Contending Theologies""; ""Ká¹?á¹£á¹?a Mesocosmic Forms""; ""2 The Embodied Aesthetics of Bhakti: Fashioning Devotional Bodies""
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Theorizing the Body in the Human Sciences""; ""The Body in Philosophy""; ""The Body in Social Theory""; ""The Body in Feminist and Gender Studies""; ""The Body in Religion""; ""Hindu Discourses of the Body""; ""The Body as a Psychophysical Continuum""; ""Transmigratory History of the Body""; ""The Person, the Self, and the Body""; ""Integral Bodies""; ""Processual Bodies""; ""Bhakti and Embodiment""; ""Embodying the Divine""; ""The BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a""
""From PurÄ?á¹?a-Veda to KÄ?rá¹£á¹?a-Veda: PurÄ?á¹?ic Constructions of Canonical Authority""""Transcendent Authority of the Veda""; ""Vedic Status of the PurÄ?á¹?as""; ""BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a as the Culmination of Åšruti and Smá¹?ti""; ""BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a as the Embodiment of BhagavÄ?n""; ""Sovereign of All ÅšÄ?stras and Embodiment of BhagavÄ?n: Gauá??Ä«ya Perspectives on the BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a""; ""Transcendent Authority of the Veda""; ""Vedic Status of the PurÄ?á¹?as""; ""Transcendent Authority of the BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a""
""Fashioning Devotional Bodies through Engaging the BhÄ?gavata""""4 NÄ?man as Sound-AvatÄ?ra: From Transcendent Vibration to Reverberating Name""; ""Transcendent Vibrations, Primordial Utterances, and Meditation Devices: Vedic Perspectives on Mantras""; ""Cognition of the Vedic Mantras""; ""Vedic Mantras in the Discourse of Sacrifice""; ""Root Mantras in the Discourse of Knowledge""; ""Embodying the Divine Presence in Sound: Mantra and NÄ?man in the BhÄ?gavata PurÄ?á¹?a""; ""Re-visioning Mantras""; ""Engaging the Name""
Summary The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 21, 2015)
SUBJECT Krishna (Hindu deity) fast
Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa fast
Subject Bhakti.
Krishna (Hindu deity)
Vaishnavism.
Chaitanya (Sect)
Human body -- Religious aspects.
bhakti.
Vaisnavism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Bhakti
Chaitanya (Sect)
Human body -- Religious aspects
Vaishnavism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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