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Eckhart --- Abhinavagupta --- Mysticism --- Medieval period, 600-1500

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Sanskrit poetry --- Rasas --- Poetics --- Abhinavagupta, - Rajanaka

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Kashmir Śaivism --- Doctrines. --- Abhinavagupta, --- Tantras. --- Kashmir Śaivism - Doctrines. --- Abhinavagupta, - Rajanaka. - Paratrimsikavivrti.

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Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Śaiva theology and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijña system are well known. Yet so far his works have often been studied without fully taking into account the specific historical, social, artistic, religious and philosophical context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this book is to show that this intellectual background is not less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself.

Philosophy, Indic --- Intellectual life --- Abhinavagupta, --- Jammu and Kashmir (India) --- India --- History --- Philosophy, Indic. --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Abhinavagupta, - Rājānaka --- Jammu and Kashmir (India) - Intellectual life --- Jammu and Kashmir (India) - History --- India - Jammu and Kashmir

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The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions can be tastes of the divine. In this book, the methods of the emerging discipline of comparative theology enable the author’s appreciation of Hindu texts and practices to illuminate her Christian reflections on aesthetics and emotion. Three emotions vie for prominence in the religious sphere: peace, love, and fury. Whereas Indian theorists following Abhinavagupta claim that the aesthetic emotion of peace best approximates the goal of religious experience, devotees of Krishna and medieval Christian readings of the Song of Songs argue that love communicates most powerfully with divinity. In response to the transcendence emphasized in both approaches, the book turns to fury at injustice to attend to emotion’s foundations in the material realm. The implications of this constructive theology of emotion for Christian liturgy, pastoral care, and social engagement are manifold.

Christianity and other religions --- Hinduism --- Emotions --- Rasas. --- Aesthetics, Indic --- Literature --- Mood (Psychology) --- Poetics --- Rhetoric and psychology --- Hinduism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects. --- Aesthetics --- Abhinavagupta. --- Aesthetics. --- Bernard of Clairvaux. --- Comparative Theology. --- Emotions. --- Gaudiya Vaisnavism. --- Indian Christianity. --- Jyoti Sahi. --- Liberation theology. --- Rasa. --- Christianity and other religions - Hinduism. --- Hinduism - Relations - Christianity. --- Emotions - Religious aspects.