Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800'It provides a picture, fascinating...of some of the religious movements in Indian history.' -- The book ReviewThis book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Eleven key essays debate the linkages between the religious and worldly aims of different movements and the continuity and change in their ideologies, social bases, and organizationalstructures over time. They present divergent views on important issues such as the relationship between caste and the sect, the idea of renunciation, the role of the Sufis in the conversion to Islam in medieval India, and the ways in which many South Asian popular movements emerged and gatheredforce.In an insightful introduction by David Lorenzen, each debate is discussed in its historical and theoretical context. The influence of Dumont, Engels, and Weber on our understanding of the nature of religious movemtns in and beyond the South Asia is also analysed. Part of the pr estigious Debates inIndian History and Society series, this volume will be useful for students, scholars and teachers of medieval and early modern India, as well as those interested in religious studies, comparative religion, sociology, and anthropology. |
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Contents
CONTENTS | 6 |
From Devotion and Dissent to Dominance | 47 |
Social Mobility and Medieval South | 81 |
Copyright | |
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Alvars ascetic Asian Bengal Bhakti movement Brahman Buddhist Campantar Cankam caste system centres Champakalakshmi Cola concemed concept conflict context conversion to Islam cult culture defined definition deity Delhi devotion dharma doctrine Dumont early Eaton essay evidence fifteenth century figures find first genealogy groups Hindu sects Hinduism hymnists hymns Iain identified ideology important Indian history influence inscriptions Islam in India Kabir Kashmir Khan king Lal Ded Lorenzen medieval India medieval period Medieval South mobility Murukan Muslim mystic Nayanars Nfiruddin Nirguna northem political Pollock popular Punjab Puranic Rama Ramanand Ramanandi sect Ramanuja Ramayana reference reflected religion religious movements Rishi ritual role Saguna saints Saiva Saivism Sanskrit sectarian shrines significant Siva social society South Asia South India Southem School specific spiritual Srinagar Srirangam Srivaishnava Srivaishnava sect Studies subcontinent Sudra Sufi Sufism Sultanate Tamil temple texts theory Tirupati tradition twelfth century Vaisnava Vedanta Vedas Vedic verses Vijayanagar Visnu Weber worship
Bibliographic information
| Title | Religious Movements in South Asia 600-1800 Debates in Indian history and society Oxford India paperbacks Oxford in India readings Oxford in India readings: Debates in Indian history and society |
| Editor | David N. Lorenzen |
| Edition | 3, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Original from | Northwestern University |
| Digitized | Sep 21, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0195678761, 9780195678765 |
| Length | 380 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / India & South Asia Religion / Eastern |
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