Love Divine: Studies in 'Bhakti and Devotional Mysticism / Edition 1

by Karel Werner

Overview

Explores the nature and function of bhakti or devotional involvement in religious practice in India in areas where it is seldom sought or where its existence has been doubted or even denied.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700702350
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/17/1995
Series:	Durham Indological Ser. , #3
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Bhakti and the Rig Veda—Does it Appear There or Not?, Jeanine Miller; Chapter 2 Love and Devotion in Buddhism, Karel Werner; Chapter 3 The Dynamics of Paritta Chanting in Southern Buddhism, Peter Harvey; Chapter 4 Psychological Analysis of Bhakti, T.R. Sharma; Chapter 5 The Pervasiveness of Bhakti in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Freda Matchett; Chapter 6 The Place of Bhakti in Śaṅkara’s Vedānta, Jacqueline Gaynor Suthren Hirst; Chapter 7 The Role of Bhakti in the Daśanāmī Order, Wade H. Dazey; Chapter 8 The Subject, the Object, the Path and the Goal: Âaiva Devotion in a Monistic Setting, Gavin Flood; Chapter 9 Violence and the Goddess, David Smith; Chapter 10 Some Reflections on Hindu Bhakti Iconography, Christopher Aslet;