Religious authority in South Asia: generating the guru
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- 1. Gurus and Their Contexts in South Asia: An Introduction -- 2. How the Guru Lost His Power: Public Anxieties of Tantric Knowledge in the Sanskri...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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| Series: | Routledge South Asian Religion Ser.
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, lizenzpflichtig: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=7079148
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| Author Notes: | edited by Istvan Keul and Srilata Raman |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- 1. Gurus and Their Contexts in South Asia: An Introduction -- 2. How the Guru Lost His Power: Public Anxieties of Tantric Knowledge in the Sanskrit Vetāla Tales -- 3. The Guru Function in the Emergence of Marathi Literature in Thirteenth-Century India -- 4. Guru Dādu- in the Perception of His Direct Disciples -- 5. Canonization of Bhakti Gurus: A Missing Link between Jai Singh II and Haris´candra -- 6. The Emergence of the Social in the Service of the Guru -- 7. Between Sagacity and Scandal: Celibacy, Sexuality and a Guru in Nineteenth-Century Punjab -- 8. The Occluded Guru or the Guru as Gardener: C. Jinarajadasa's Theosophical Universe -- 9. Inversions of Kim: The Victorian Childhood of J. Krishnamurti -- 10. The Vaidika's Limits: Candras´ekharendra Sarasvatī Svāmī (1894- 1994) and Tamil Brahmin Guruship -- 11. The Fiction of Ecumenical Universalism: Where Gurus Do Not Matter -- 12. Between the Letter and the Spirit: Gandhi's Orbit -- 13. Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship -- 14. Manufacturing Charisma in the Metropolis -- 15. Narrating the Spiritualized Life -- 16. The Gurus of a Post-Colonial Education: An Autobiographical Note -- Selected Publications by Vasudha Dalmia -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781000654929 |