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Religious Authority in South Asia - Generating the Guru (Hardcover)
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Religious Authority in South Asia - Generating the Guru (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series
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This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South
Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts,
polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary
devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru
organizations. Experts in the field present reflections on
historically specific contexts in which a guru comes into being,
becomes part of a community, is venerated, challenged or
repudiated, generates a new canon, remains unique with no clear
succession or establishes a succession in which charisma is
routinized. The guru emerges and is sustained and routinized from
the nexus of guruship, narratives, performances and community. The
contributors to the book examine this nexus at specific historical
moments with all their elements of change and contingency. The book
will be of interest to scholars in the field of South Asian
studies, the study of religions and cultural studies.
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