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Caitanya Vaisnavas in Bengal - Social Impact and Historical Implications (Hardcover)
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Caitanya Vaisnavas in Bengal - Social Impact and Historical Implications (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for
millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who
insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and
experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity,
Visnu. Caitanya Vaisnavas are a community of Vaisnava devotees who
coalesced around Krsna Caitanya (1486-1533), who taught devotion to
the name and form of Krsna, especially in conjunction with his
divine consort Radha and who also came to be looked upon by many as
Krsna himself who had graciously chosen to be born in Bengal to
exemplify the ideal mode of loving devotion (prema-bhakti). This
book focusses on the relationship between the 'transcendent'
intentionality of religious faith of human beings and their
'mundane' socio-cultural ways of living, through a detailed study
of the social implications of the Caitanya Vaisnava devotional
Hindu tradition in pre-colonial and colonial Bengal. Structured in
two parts, the first analyzes the articulation of Krsna-bhakti
within the broad Hindu sector of Bengali society. The second
section examines Hindu-Muslim relationships in Bengal from the
particular vantage point of the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition, and in
which the subtle influence of Krsna-bhakti, it is argued, may be
detected. In both sections, the bulk of attention is given to the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Bengal was under
independent Sultanate or emergent Mughal rule and thus free of the
impact of British and European colonial influence. Arguing that the
Caitanya Vaisnava devotion contributed to the softening of the
potentially alienating socio-cultural divisions of class, caste,
sect and religio-political community in Bengal, this book will be
of interest to academics in the field of Asian Religion and
Hinduism, in particular devotional Hinduism, both premodern and
modern, as well as to scholars and students of South Asian social
history, Hindu-Muslim relations, and Bengali religious culture.
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