Religious Movements in South Asia, 600-1800David N. Lorenzen Eleven Key Essays Debate How The Religious And Worldly Aims Of Differnet Movements Are Linked And How Their Ideologies, Social Bases And Organisational Structures Have Continued And Changed Over Time. Divided In 5 Chapters-Alvars And Nayanars, Conversion To Islam, Rama And The Muslims, Kabir And The Saints And Historical Overviews. |
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From Devotion and Dissent to Dominance | 47 |
Social Mobility and Medieval South | 81 |
Approaches to the Study of Conversion | 105 |
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Advaita Vedānta Ālvār ascetics Asian Ayodhyā belief Bengal Bhakti movement Brahman brāhmaņas Buddhist Campantar caste system centres Champakalakshmi concept context conversion to Islam cult culture definition of bhakti deity Delhi devotion dharma disciples doctrine early epic essay established evidence example fact groups Gujarat Hindi Hinduism historians hymns identity ideology important Indian history inscriptions Jain Kabir Kashmir king Lal Ded lila medieval India medieval period mobility Mohammadan monotheism Muslim mystic Nānak Nirguna Nūruddin political Pollock popular Prthvīrāja Rāma Ramanandi sect Rāmānuja Rāmāyaņa Rāvana reference region religion religious movements Rishi ritual role Romila Romila Thapar royal Saguna bhaktas saints Saiva Sanskrit scholars sectarian shrine significant Śiva social society South Asia South India spiritual clans spiritual genealogy Sri sect Srinagar Srirangam Srivaishnava subcontinent Sudra Sufi Sufism Sultanate Tamil temple texts Thapar theory Tirupati tradition Turuşka twelfth century Vaisnava Vedānta Vedic Vijayanagar Vişnu worship