From Hagiographies to Biographies
Ramanuja In Tradition and History
Price: 895.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198092292
Publication date:
10/06/2014
Hardback
260 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 895.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198092292
Publication date:
10/06/2014
Hardback
260 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Ranjeeta Dutta
Suitable for: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of early and medieval Indian social history, religious studies, and philosophy.
Rights: World Rights
Ranjeeta Dutta
Description
The image of an individual is usually a result of accretions of motifs in history. However most modern biographies crucial for popularizing Ramanuja have overlooked this fact. Emphasizing the dialogic interaction between the hagiographies and biographies, this study argues that the two cannot always be understood merely within the binaries of the sacred and the secular. Based upon a range of historical sources, the book delineates various moments of interactions in history when the notion of a remembered past and the historical memories through which the past would become a received tradition were being configured.
Ranjeeta Dutta
Ranjeeta Dutta
Description
The image of an individual is usually a result of accretions of motifs in history. However most modern biographies crucial for popularizing Ramanuja have overlooked this fact. Emphasizing the dialogic interaction between the hagiographies and biographies, this study argues that the two cannot always be understood merely within the binaries of the sacred and the secular. Based upon a range of historical sources, the book delineates various moments of interactions in history when the notion of a remembered past and the historical memories through which the past would become a received tradition were being configured.
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