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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism - Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys? (Paperback)
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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism - Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this
book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological
concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth
century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South
India. This original study shows that medieval sectarian formation
in its theological dimension is a fluid and ambivalent enterprise,
where conflict and differentiation are presaged on sharing, whether
of a common canon, saint or rituals or two languages (Tamil and
Sanskrit), or of a meta-social arena such as the temple.
Srilata Mueller, a member of the Shrivaishnava community, argues
that the core ideas of prapatti in these religious texts reveal the
description of a heterogeneous theological concept. Demonstrating
that this concept is theologically moulded by the emergence of new
literary genres, Mueller puts forward the idea that this original
understanding of prapatti is a major contributory cause to the
emergence of sectarian divisions among the Shrivaishnavas, which
lead to the formation of two sub-sects, the Tenkalai and the
Vatakalia, who stand respectively, for the cat and monkey
theological positions.
Making an important contribution to contemporary Indian and Hindu
thinking on religion, this text provides a new intellectual history
of medieval Indian religion. It will be of particular interest to
scholars of Shrivaishnava and also Hindu and Indian religious
studies.
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