1st Edition
Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers
Introduction, Gil Ben-Herut, Jon Keune, and Anne E. Monius; 1 From foolish ascetics to enemies of Siva: the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil Saiva literature, Anne E. Monius; 2 Kali dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land, Elaine Craddock; 3 Arguing with Vai¿¿avas, annihilating Jains: two religious others in early Kannada Sivabhakti hagiographies, Gil Ben-Herut; 4 Bhakti Inc., Kerala: alienated selves and assimilated others, Rich Freeman; 5 The challenge of the swappable other: a framework for interpreting otherness in bhakti texts, Jon Keune; 6 The political field of bhakti at the emergence of Marathi literature in premodern India, Christian Lee Novetzke; 7 The Datta sa¿pradaya and its others, Jeremy G. Morse; 8 Lost in the lake: Tulsidas and his others, Philip Lutgendorf; 9 Are there atheists in potholes? Mima¿sakas debate the path of bhakti, Anand Venkatkrishnan
Biography
Gil Ben-Herut is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, US.
Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, US.
Anne E. Monius is a Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts, US.
