The guru in South Asia: new interdisciplinary perspectives

This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives...

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Weitere Verfasser: Copeman, Jacob (HerausgeberIn), Ikegame, Aya (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Schriftenreihe:Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
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Zusammenfassung:This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 Seiten)
ISBN:0203116259
1136298061
1280874333
6613715646
9780203116258
9781136298066
9781280874338
9786613715647

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