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Siva's Saints - The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara's Ragalegalu (Hardcover)
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Siva's Saints - The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara's Ragalegalu (Hardcover)
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Today numbering more than twelve million people, the Virasaivas
constitute a vibrant south-Indian community renowned for its bhakti
(devotional) religiosity and for its entrenched resistance to
traditional Brahminical values. For eight centuries this tradition
produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly in
the Kannada language. Siva's Saints introduces the Ragalegalu, a
foundational and previously unexplored work produced in the early
thirteenth century. As the first written narrative about the
traditions progenitors, this work inaugurated a new era of
devotional narratives accessible to wide audiences in the
Kannada-speaking region. By closely reading the saints stories in
the Ragalegalu, Gil Ben-Herut takes a more nuanced historical view
than commonly-held notions about the egalitarian and iconoclastic
nature of the early tradition. Instead, Ben-Herut argues that the
early Siva-devotion movement in the region was less radical and
more accommodating toward traditional religious, social, and
political institutions than thought today. In contrast to the
narrowly sectarian and exclusionary vision that shapes later
accounts, the Ragalegalu is characterized by an opposite impulse,
offering an open invitation to people from all walks of life, whose
stories illustrate the richness of their devotional lives. Analysis
of this seminal text yields important insights into the role of
literary representation of the social and political development of
a religious community in a pre-modern and non-Western milieu.
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