Re: [silk] Books about the Bhakti movement?

Assuming knowledge is gathered and presented without an implicit bias or agenda, which is nearly impossible, the choice of the starting point on most things in life can radically alter the knowledge. For example, a logger or poacher will possess a very different knowledge of a forest from a tribal

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My quest is definitely for a book written in an idiom and language I understand. I am looking for a book that makes its arguments using contemporary academic tools. In this idiom, words like 'logic', 'history' and 'academic's are not slights. Which is why John Stratton Hawley's book sounded promisi

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Historians and academicians of religion can occasionally be guilty of approaching an intuitive and lived experience largely beyond the grasp of the intellect with the cold stare of logic and ambition. They are like a computer generated Mondrian, or a film set of Auschwitz, they don't carry the life

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I would love to hear your views on the book once you have read it. I am basically alarmed / amused by the blurbs on amazon.com (partly reproduced below) which go against everything we as practicing Hindus have learned. *"Challenging this canonical narrative, John Stratton Hawley clarifies the hist

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Your effusive endorsement speaks to your generous nature. The Upanishads (literally meaning to sit near the guru and listen) says this of the challenge of writing about the spirit - "Language takes to its heels in fright when faced with the prospect of describing the ineffable". Apropos "Division

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How beautifully written, Cheeni. Thank you. I am still pondering over division and unison as seemingly-irreconcilable concepts, with regard to taxonomy...You often crystallize my amorphous, hard-to-pen thoughts. Only, I am not sure I agree with "division is violence"let me think about that. D

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On Jun 21, 2017 12:13 PM, "Thaths" wrote: This book seems to be the one I am looking for: A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement by John Stratton Hawley. I'm glad you found a book to your looking. Judging by the Amazon "product desc

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This book seems to be the one I am looking for: A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement by John Stratton Hawley. Thaths On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM Thaths wrote: > I am looking for a book that explores the origins of, and gradual

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Speaking of that – the Chennai Ramakrishna Math has a large number of Swami Ramakrishna and Vivekananda’s works but transcribed into word or something of the sort, and not in a Unicode font either. So trying to turn them into HTML or make them into something cross platform is resulting in a ton

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Caveat: I'm consciously omitting books by professional historians that spend more time on the transactional human exchanges than the idea of Bhakti. https://istore.chennaimath.org/product/spiritual-heritage-of-india/ The spiritual heritage of India by Swami Prabhavananda; I highly recommend thi

[silk] Books about the Bhakti movement?

I am looking for a book that explores the origins of, and gradual spread of the Bhakti movement in India. Not interested in one specific strand of Bhakti. More interested in understanding the economic, social and cultural conditions that led to the rise of these movements across India. Have you c