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Self-Surrender (Prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism

Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys?

by Raman Srilata, Srilata Raman

  • Paperback
  • 268 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South India. This original study shows that medieval sectarian formation in its theological dimension is a fluid and ambivalent enterprise, where conflict and differentiation are presaged on "sharing," whether of a common canon, saint or rituals or two languages (Tamil and Sanskrit), or of a "meta-social" arena such as the temple. Srilata Mueller, a member of the Shrivaishnava community, argues that the core ideas of prapatti in these religious texts reveal the description of a heterogeneous theological concept. Demonstrating that this concept is theologically moulded by the emergence of new literary genres, Mueller puts forward the idea that this original understanding of prapatti is a major contributory cause to the emergence of sectarian divisions among the Shrivaishnavas, which lead to the formation of two sub-sects, the Tenkalai and the Vatakalia, who stand respectively, for the "cat" and "monkey" theological positions. Making an important contribution to contemporary Indian and Hindu thinking on religion, this text provides a new intellectual history of medieval Indian religion. It will be of particular interest to scholars of Shrivaishnava and also Hindu and Indian religious studies.
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  • Author

    Raman Srilata

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    April 2009

  • Weight

    382g

  • Page Count

    268

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780415544641

  • ISBN-10

    0415544645

  • Eden Code

    4071283

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