Ranjeeta Dutta

From Hagiographies to Biographies

Raamaanuja in Tradition and History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the history and role of hagiographies and their impact on the growth and evolution of a biographical tradition. Focusing on Ramanuja, one of the foremost reformers and Vaisnava saints, it presents the hagiographical accounts of his life within the historical context of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries when the processes of canonization took place.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780198092292
• ISBN-10: 0198092296
• Artikelnr.: 47868928

Autorenporträt

Ranjeeta Dutta is Assistant Professor, Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Encountering R?m?nuja: Some Preliminaries
2. Texts, Tradition and the ?r?vai??ava Community
3. Texts, Contexts and the ?r?vai??ava Community
4. R?m?nuja as an ?c?rya
5. Devotion and Dissent: R?m?nuja as a "Social Reformer"
6. From Hagiographies to Biographies: Some Concluding
Bibliography
Index
About the Author