A genealogy of devotion Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India
Patton Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional 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...
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New York, NY ; Chichester, West Sussex
Columbia University Press
2019, ©2019
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction: Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in the Historiography of Bhakti
- Part I: From Medieval Tantra to Early Modern Bhakti
- 1. The Tantric Age: Tantra and Bhakti in Medieval India
- 2. Sultans, Saints, and Songs: Persianate Culture, Sufism, and Bhakti in Sultanate India
- 3. Akbar’s New World: Mughals and Rajputs in the Rise of Vaiṣṇava Bhakti
- Part II: Yogīs, Poets, and a New Bhakti Sensibility in Mughal India
- 4. Between Bhakti and Śakti: Religious Sensibilities Among the Rāmānandīs of Galta
- 5. Nāth Yogīs and Rāmānandī Bhaktas: Styles of Yoga and Asceticism in North India
- 6. Agradās and the Circulation of Mughal Bhakti: Formations of Bhakti Community
- Part III: The Devotee Versus the Tāntrika
- 7. Yogīs and Tantra-Mantra in the Poetry of the Bhakti Saints
- 8. The Triumphs of Devotion: The Sufi Inflection of Early Modern Bhakti
- Conclusion: Bhakti Religion and Tantric Magic
- Appendix: Manuscripts Containing Compositions by Agradās
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index