Devotional Literature in South Asia

Table of Contents

• 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: Dādūpanthī homilies Monika Thiel-Horstmann
• 5. Some aspects of the development of bhakti traditions, with especial reference to the Hindi poems attributed to Rāmānand Enzo Turbiani
• 6. The Hindu model of social organisation and the bhakti movement: the example of Vallabha's sampradāya Maya Burger
• Part III. Interaction Between Islamic and Indian Religious Attitudes:
• 7. Sūfī influence in the Ekanāthī-bhāgavat: 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 Françoise Mallison
• 10. The Ismaili gināns as devotional literature Ali S. Asani
• Part IV. Literary and Religious Traditions in Maharashtra:
• 11. A grammar of bhakti: Pañcavārtika V. D. Kulkarni
• 12. Authorship and redactorship of the Jñāndev Gāthā Catharina Kiehnle
• 13. Mātāpitrbhakti: some aspects of the development of the Pundalīka legend in Marathi literature Erik Reenberg Sand
• 14. Tukārām: the making of a saint S. G. Tulpule
• 15. Sadguru and the Holy Spirit Christopher Shelke SJ
• 16. Special features of the Vārkarī cult as regards sādhanā G. Morje
• Part V. Some Particular Expressions of the Sūfī Presence in North India:
• 17. The text of Alakh Bānī S. C. R. Weightman
• 18. Kutuban's Miragāvatī: its content and interpretation S. M. Pandey
• 19. Krsnaite and Nāth elements in the poetry of the eighteenth-century Panjabi Sūfī Bullhe Śāh 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 Sūrdās K. E. Bryant
• 21. Creative enumeration in the vinaya poetry of Sūrdās John Stratton Hawley
• 22. The padas attributed to Nanddās R. S. McGregor
• 23. Synoptic and sectarian bhakti in the poetry of Dhruvdās Rupert Snell
• Part VII. Discussion of the Rāma Tradition in North and North-East India:
• 24. Taranisena: a parochialised devotional motif W. L. Smith
• 25. Tulsīdās and Confucius Jin Dinghan
• Part VIII. Modernisation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries:
• 26. Hariścandra of Banaras and the reassessment of Vaisnava bhakti in the late nineteenth century Vasudha Dalmia-Lüderitz
• 27. A reinterpretation of bhakti theology: from the Pustimārg to the Brahma Kumaris R. K. Barz
• Index.
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