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A Genealogy of Devotion - Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India (Hardcover)
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A Genealogy of Devotion - Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India (Hardcover)
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In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking
genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its
understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and
Sufism. Beginning in India's early medieval "Tantric Age" and
reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the
crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti
communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in
ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism.
A Genealogy of Devotion illuminates the complex historical factors
at play in the growth of bhakti in Sultanate and Mughal India
through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate
traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature.
Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular
Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett's work
explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North
Indian communities. Focusing on the Ramanandi bhakti community and
the tantric Nath yogis, Burchett describes the emergence of a new
and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility-an ethical, emotional,
and aesthetic disposition-that was often critical of tantric and
yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques
of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era
Orientalist depictions of bhakti as "religion" and tantra as
"magic." Providing a broad historical view of bhakti, tantra, and
yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly
conceptions of them, A Genealogy of Devotion offers a bold new
narrative of the history of religion in India.
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