Religious Authority in South Asia
eBook - ePub

Religious Authority in South Asia

Generating the Guru

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Religious Authority in South Asia

Generating the Guru

About this book

This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia, examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts, polemical tracts, hagiographies, histories, in contemporary devotional communities, New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations.

Experts in the field present reflections on historically specific contexts in which a guru comes into being, becomes part of a community, is venerated, challenged or repudiated, generates a new canon, remains unique with no clear succession or establishes a succession in which charisma is routinized. The guru emerges and is sustained and routinized from the nexus of guruship, narratives, performances and community. The contributors to the book examine this nexus at specific historical moments with all their elements of change and contingency.

The book will be of interest to scholars in the field of South Asian studies, the study of religions and cultural studies.

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Yes, you can access Religious Authority in South Asia by István Keul, Srilata Raman, István Keul,Srilata Raman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Regional Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032259307
eBook ISBN
9781000654929
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Regional Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. List of contributors
  10. 1. Gurus and Their Contexts in South Asia: An Introduction
  11. 2. How the Guru Lost His Power: Public Anxieties of Tantric Knowledge in the Sanskrit Vetāla Tales
  12. 3. The Guru Function in the Emergence of Marathi Literature in Thirteenth-Century India
  13. 4. Guru Dādū in the Perception of His Direct Disciples
  14. 5. Canonization of Bhakti Gurus: A Missing Link between Jai Singh II and Hariścandra
  15. 6. The Emergence of the Social in the Service of the Guru
  16. 7. Between Sagacity and Scandal: Celibacy, Sexuality and a Guru in Nineteenth-Century Punjab
  17. 8. The Occluded Guru or the Guru as Gardener: C. Jinarajadasa’s Theosophical Universe
  18. 9. Inversions of Kim: The Victorian Childhood of J. Krishnamurti
  19. 10. The Vaidika’s Limits: Candraśekharendra Sarasvatī Svāmī (1894–1994) and Tamil Brahmin Guruship
  20. 11. The Fiction of Ecumenical Universalism: Where Gurus Do Not Matter
  21. 12. Between the Letter and the Spirit: Gandhi’s Orbit
  22. 13. Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship
  23. 14. Manufacturing Charisma in the Metropolis
  24. 15. Narrating the Spiritualized Life
  25. 16. The Gurus of a Post-Colonial Education: An Autobiographical Note
  26. Selected Publications by Vasudha Dalmia
  27. Index