A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India
ISBN: 9780231548830
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Theology and Religion; General Topics and Biblical Reception;

Patton Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional ( bhakti ) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. He focuses his analysis on the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape.

Burchett Patton E. :

Patton Burchett (PhD, South Asian Religions, Columbia) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. He has published articles in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including International Journal of Hindu Studies, Journal of Hindu Studies, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion; this is his first book.Patton E. Burchett is assistant professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary.


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