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Bhakti and Embodiment - Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti (Paperback)
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Bhakti and Embodiment - Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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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
proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining
translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different
times and different localities on different planes of existence.
Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between
bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the
distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of
bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that
bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study
is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of
embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine
bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti
traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the
Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava
bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and
ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and
the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition
inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century,
which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to
the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna
bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the
Bhagavata Purana.
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