Love in the Time of Scholarship
Where is the ""life"" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge that gap? In Love in the Time of Scholarship, author Anand Venkatkrishnan explores these questions within the intellectual history of a popular Hindu...
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| description | Where is the ""life"" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge that gap? In Love in the Time of Scholarship, author Anand Venkatkrishnan explores these questions within the intellectual history of a popular Hindu scripture, the Bhagavata Purana, spanning the precolonial period of the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries in India. He shows that Brahmin intellectuals writing in Sanskrit were neither impervious to the quotidian religious practices of bhakti, nor uninterested in its politics of language and caste. They supported, contested, and repurposed the social commentary of bhakti even in highly technical works of Sanskrit knowledge, and their personal religious commitments featured in a language and genre of writing that deliberately isolated itself from worldly matters. The religion of bhakti bound together the transregional discourse of Sanskrit learning and the local devotional practices of everyday people, though not in a top-down manner. Rather, vernacular ways of being, believing, and belonging in the world could and did reshape the contours of Sanskrit intellectuality.
Venkatkrishnan revisits the historiography of the Bhagavata Purana to expand our knowledge of the many different religious and philosophical communities that interpreted and laid claim to the themes of the text. While most associated with the traditions of Vaisnavism, Love in the Time of Scholarship brings to light how the Bhagavata was also studied by Saivas, Saktas, and others on the periphery of the text's history. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1480962024-11-20T04:12:49Z Love in the Time of Scholarship Venkatkrishnan, Anand religion, hinduism, early modern intellectual history, Sanskrit, bhakti, Bhāgavata Purāna thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism::QRDF Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BB Early Indic languages::2BBA Sanskrit Where is the ""life"" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge that gap? In Love in the Time of Scholarship, author Anand Venkatkrishnan explores these questions within the intellectual history of a popular Hindu scripture, the Bhagavata Purana, spanning the precolonial period of the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries in India. He shows that Brahmin intellectuals writing in Sanskrit were neither impervious to the quotidian religious practices of bhakti, nor uninterested in its politics of language and caste. They supported, contested, and repurposed the social commentary of bhakti even in highly technical works of Sanskrit knowledge, and their personal religious commitments featured in a language and genre of writing that deliberately isolated itself from worldly matters. The religion of bhakti bound together the transregional discourse of Sanskrit learning and the local devotional practices of everyday people, though not in a top-down manner. Rather, vernacular ways of being, believing, and belonging in the world could and did reshape the contours of Sanskrit intellectuality. Venkatkrishnan revisits the historiography of the Bhagavata Purana to expand our knowledge of the many different religious and philosophical communities that interpreted and laid claim to the themes of the text. While most associated with the traditions of Vaisnavism, Love in the Time of Scholarship brings to light how the Bhagavata was also studied by Saivas, Saktas, and others on the periphery of the text's history. 2024-11-20T04:12:48Z 2024-11-20T04:12:48Z 2024-11-19T14:02:21Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94765 9780197776650 9780197776667 9780197776636 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/148096 eng Rocher Indology open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94765/1/Venkatkrishnan_9780197776643_WEB.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/ 9780197776636.001.0001 10.1093/oso/ 9780197776636.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780197776650 9780197776667 9780197776636 257 New York open access |
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