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portada self-surrender (prapatti) to god in shrivaishnavism: tamil cats or sanskrit monkeys?
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2007
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
24.1 x 16.7 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.54 kg.
ISBN
0415391857
ISBN13
9780415391856
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self-surrender (prapatti) to god in shrivaishnavism: tamil cats or sanskrit monkeys?

Srilata Raman (Author) · Routledge · Hardcover

self-surrender (prapatti) to god in shrivaishnavism: tamil cats or sanskrit monkeys? - Raman, Srilata

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Synopsis "self-surrender (prapatti) to god in shrivaishnavism: tamil cats or sanskrit monkeys?"

Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South India. This original study shows that medieval sectarian formation in its theological dimension is a fluid and ambivalent enterprise, where conflict and differentiation are presaged on "sharing", whether of a common canon, saint or rituals or two languages (Tamil and Sanskrit), or of a "meta-social" arena such as the temple. Srilata Mueller, a member of the Shrivaishnava community, argues that the core ideas of prapatti in these religious texts reveal the description of a heterogeneous theological concept. Demonstrating that this concept is theologically moulded by the emergence of new literary genres, Mueller puts forward the idea that this original understanding of prapatti is a major contributory cause to the emergence of sectarian divisions among the Shrivaishnavas, which lead to the formation of two sub-sects, the Tenkalai and the Vatakalia, who stand respectively, for the "cat" and "monkey" theological positions. Making an important contribution to contemporary Indian and Hindu thinking on religion, this text provides a new intellectual history of medieval Indian religion. It will be of particular interest to scholars of Shrivaishnava and also Hindu and Indian religious studies.

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