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Vaisnavism, the Gaudiya tradition --- ancient religious heritage --- modern scholarship --- Gaudiya Vaisnavism --- theology and practice --- the nature of the Absolute --- devotional poetry --- sacred space --- mystical states --- sonic theology

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Vaishnavism --- Vishnouisme --- Chaitanya (Sect) --- Gurus --- Hindu philosophy --- Spiritual life --- Vaisnavism --- Vishnuism --- Hindu sects --- Spiritual life (Hinduism) --- Philosophy, Hindu --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Indic --- Hinduism --- Chaitnaya (Sect) --- History --- Hindu authors

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In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society-insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance.Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy-particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different-Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status-the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British.

Råamåanandåis --- Vaishnavism --- Hinduism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Social aspects --- Vaisnavism --- Vishnuism --- Hindu sects --- Rāmānandīs --- Rāmānandins --- Rāmavats --- Social aspects.

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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.

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Hinduism. --- Hindouisme --- Hinduism --- diaspora --- diasporic Hinduism --- indigenous Hinduism --- North America --- Nepali Hinduism --- Southern California --- Trinidad Hinduism --- Hinduism in the Caribbean --- Tamil Saivism in Norway --- contemporary Hinduism in North India --- the Indajatra festival --- vernacular Hinduism in Rajasthan --- Sindhi Hinduism --- devotional expressions in the Swaminarayan community --- Krsna devotion in Western India --- Varkaris --- low-caste Hinduism in Central India --- Vaisnavism in Bengal --- contemporary Hinduism in South India --- snake goddess traditions in Tamilnadu --- Nambutiris --- Ayyapan --- Kerala --- the Sri Venkateswara Temple --- Tirupati --- militant ascetic traditions --- India --- Sri Lanka