Storm of Songs - India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement

Informationen zum Autor John Stratton Hawley is an award-winning translator and scholar of religious studies. He has written extensively on the bhakti movement and is the Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. Klappentext A widely-accepted explanation for Indiäs national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement¿poet-saints singing bhakti from Indiäs southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal. Zusammenfassung A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.

Product details

• Authors: John Stratton Hawley, Hawley John Stratton
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2015
• EAN: 9780674187467
• ISBN: 978-0-674-18746-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Hinduism / General, India, Hinduism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India