A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
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India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the "bhakti movement." Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner peace, of anguished protest. The idea known as the bhakti movement asserts that between 600 and 1600 CE, poet-saints sang bhakti from India's southernmost tip to its northern Himalayan...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674187466
ISBN13:9780674187467
Release Date:March 2015
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 5.6" x 10.0"
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