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Religion And Public Memory : a cultural history of saint namdev in india /
Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory for over eight centuries. Born in the Marathi-speaking region of the Deccan in the late thirteenth century, Namdev is remembered as a simple, l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: The Shape of the Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Namdev, Bhakti, Public, and Memory; Part 1. Practices of Memory; 1. A Sant Between Memory and History; 2. Public Performance and Corporate Authorship; 3. Orality and Literacy/Performance and Permanence; Part 2. Publics of Memory; 4. Namdev and the Namas: Anamnetic Authorship from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; 5. Memories of Suffering in the Eighteenth Century; 6. A Sant for the Nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
- 7. The Idea of Namdev in Two Films in the Twentieth CenturyConclusion; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.