“The Bhakti Movement in India: A Critical Introduction - Lele - 1981 () Citation Context ... bhakti tradition as expressing the political aspirations of the subaltern for freedom from caste and/or colonial oppression, see Bayly 2000:123-24, Clarke 1998, Gokhale-Turner 1981, Hay 1988:130-39...
the way in which brāhmaṇas today adapt to discourses and circumstances of modernity — including proceses of urban migration and regional, national, and transnational movement; economic changes; the challenging of their traditional status quo by reform movements; and the changing position of women...
While few in the general public will have ever heard the term ‘Vedanta’, its influence is nonetheless pervasive. The core concepts of Vedanta have profoundly influenced and inspired a great many other teachings, including Buddhism, and in the West, the theosophical movement and its new age o...
Interestingly, while the content of this sublime work, throughout, pertains to Bhakti Rasa (the Sentiment of Devotion), its prosodic form is steeped in VIr Rasa (the Heroic Sentiment). In the classical Indian poetics, these two Rasas are considered mutually antithetical and this...
Bhakti (the path of devotion) –focuses on devotion to God Tantra (the path of ecstasy) –focuses on ritual and initiation Hatha (the forceful path) –focuses on energy and movement of the body Modern yoga in the West In the West, the word “yoga” has come to mean a particular style...