Religious authority in South Asia : generating the guru /: generating the guru. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Istvan Keul and Srilata Raman.
• Editors: Keul, István; Raman, Srilata
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Contextualizing gurus in South Asia ISTVÁN KEUL and SRILATA RAMAN 2 How the guru lost his power: Public anxieties of tantric knowledge in the Sanskrit vetāla tales ADHEESH SATHAYE 3 The guru function in the emergence of Marathi literature in thirteenth-century India CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE 4 Guru Dādū in the perception of his direct disciples MONIKA HORSTMANN 5 Canonization of bhakti gurus: A missing link between Jai Singh II and Hariścandra HEIDI PAUWELS 6 The emergence of the social in the service of the Guru ANNE MURPHY 7 Between sagacity and scandal: Celibacy, sexuality, and a guru in nineteenth-century Punjab ANSHU MALHOTRA 8 The occluded guru, or the guru as gardener: C. Jinarajadasa’s theosophical universe SMRITI SRINIVAS 9 Inversions of Kim: The Victorian childhood of J. Krishnamurti SRILATA RAMAN 10 The Vaidika’s limits: Candraśekharendra Sarasvatī Svāmī (1894-1994) and Tamil brahmin guruship ERIC STEINSCHNEIDER 11 The fiction of ecumenical universalism: Where gurus do not matter MARTIN FUCHS 12 Between the letter and the spirit: Gandhi’s orbit KUMKUM SANGARI 13 Guru sex: Charisma, proxemic desire, and the haptic logics of the guru-disciple relationship AMANDA LUCIA 14 Manufacturing charisma in the metropolis ISTVÁN KEUL 15 Narrating the spiritualized life NIKHIL GOVIND 16 The gurus of a post-colonial education: An autobiographical note VASUDHA DALMIA 17 Selected publications by Vasudha Dalmia
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 299.930954; Gurus -- South Asia; Authority -- Religious aspects; South Asia -- Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000654929; 9781000654905; 9781003285700
• Related ISBNs: 9781032259307
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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