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Auteur(s) : Keune, Jon
Titre(s) : Shared devotion, shared food [Texte imprimé] : equality and the bhakti-caste question in western India / Jon Keune
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-312 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [275]-299. Index
"This book is about the deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bhakti
traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting
social equality? This the modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question. It is what
Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted
spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment
seriously, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice,
the bhakti-caste question is more complex. This book dives deeply in Marathi sources
to explore how one tradition in western India worked out the relationship between
bhakti and caste on its own terms. Food and eating together were central to this.
As stories about saints and food changed while moving across manuscripts, theatrical
plays, and films, the bhakti-caste relationship went from being a strategically ambiguous
riddle to a question that expected-and received-answers. Shared Devotion, Shared Food
demonstrates the value of critical commensality to understand how people carefully
negotiate their ethical ideals with social practices. Food's capacity to symbolize
many things made it made an ideal site for debating bhakti's implications about caste
differences. In the Vārkarītradition, strategically deployed ambiguity and the resonating
of stories across media over time developed an ideology of inclusive difference-not
social equality in the modern sense, but an alternative holistic view of society"
Sujet(s) : Religion et politique -- Inde -- Histoire
Castes -- Inde -- Histoire
Bhakti
Rites alimentaires -- Hindouisme -- Histoire
Marāthī (langue)
Indice(s) Dewey :
294.509 54 (23e éd.) = Hindouisme - Asie du Sud Inde ; 322.109 54 (23e éd.) = Relations entre l'État et les organisations et groupes religieux - Asie du Sud
Inde
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0197574831. - ISBN 978-0-19-757483-6 (rel.)
EAN 9780197574836
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468625672
Notice n° :
FRBNF46862567
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