Devotional Literature in South Asia : Current Research, 1985-1988 (Hardcover)

List of conference members; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Sacred Places and Sites: 1. Govardhan, the Eater hill Charlotte Vaudeville; 2. The Manbhaus' seat on Ramtek Hill Hans Bakker; Part II. Formulation and Transmission of Religious Attitudes: 3. Singers' repertoires in western India Winand M. Callewaert; 4. An oral theology: D?d?panth? homilies Monika Thiel-Horstmann; 5. Some aspects of the development of bhakti traditions, with especial reference to the Hindi poems attributed to R?m?nand Enzo Turbiani; 6. The Hindu model of social organisation and the bhakti movement: the example of Vallabha's samprad?ya Maya Burger; Part III. Interaction Between Islamic and Indian Religious Attitudes: 7. S?f? influence in the Ekan?th?-bh?gavat: some observations on the text and its historical context H. van Skyhawk; 8. How a Muslim looks at Hindu bhakti Peter Gaeffke; 9. Muslim devotional literature in Gujarati: Islam and bhakti Francoise Mallison; 10. The Ismaili gin?ns as devotional literature Ali S. Asani; Part IV. Literary and Religious Traditions in Maharashtra: 11. A grammar of bhakti: Pancav?rtika V. D. Kulkarni; 12. Authorship and redactorship of the Jn?ndev G?th? Catharina Kiehnle; 13. M?t?pitrbhakti: some aspects of the development of the Pundal?ka legend in Marathi literature Erik Reenberg Sand; 14. Tuk?r?m: the making of a saint S. G. Tulpule; 15. Sadguru and the Holy Spirit Christopher Shelke SJ; 16. Special features of the V?rkar? cult as regards s?dhan? G. Morje; Part V. Some Particular Expressions of the S?f? Presence in North India: 17. The text of Alakh B?n? S. C. R. Weightman; 18. Kutuban's Mirag?vat?: its content and interpretation S. M. Pandey; 19. Krsnaite and N?th elements in the poetry of the eighteenth-century Panjabi S?f? Bullhe ??h Denis Matringe; Part VI. Some Topics in the Krsna Poetry of North India: 20. Three-three-two versus four-by-four: metrical frames for the padas of S?rd?s K. E. Bryant; 21. Creative enumeration in the vinaya poetry of S?rd?s John Stratton Hawley; 22. The padas attributed to Nandd?s R. S. McGregor; 23. Synoptic and sectarian bhakti in the poetry of Dhruvd?s Rupert Snell; Part VII. Discussion of the R?ma Tradition in North and North-East India: 24. Taranisena: a parochialised devotional motif W. L. Smith; 25. Tuls?d?s and Confucius Jin Dinghan; Part VIII. Modernisation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: 26. Hari?candra of Banaras and the reassessment of Vaisnava bhakti in the late nineteenth century Vasudha Dalmia-Luderitz; 27. A reinterpretation of bhakti theology: from the Pustim?rg to the Brahma Kumaris R. K. Barz; Index.