The Guru in South Asia
This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives...
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| description | This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their own (narrowly denominational) terms, but in terms of their diverse, complex, rapidly evolving engagements with ‘society’ broadly conceived. The book explores and illuminates the significance of female gurus, gurus from the perspective of Islam, imbrications of guru-ship and slavery in pre-modern India, connections between gurus and power, governance and economic liberalization in modern and contemporary India, vexed questions of sexuality and guru-ship, gurus’ charitable endeavours, the cosmopolitanism of gurus in contexts of spiritual tourism, and the mediation of gurus via technologies of electronic communication. Bringing together internationally renowned scholars from religious studies, political science, history, sociology and anthropology, The Guru in South Asia provides exciting and original new insights into South Asian guru-ship. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1601172025-05-22T05:11:21Z The Guru in South Asia Copeman, Jacob Ikegame, Aya mata amritanandamayi sai baba gures gobind singh sri maharishi mahesh Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Young Man Tamil Nadu Siddha Yoga Sathya Sai Movement Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Guru Nanak DSS Mata Amritanandamayi Common Language Vice Versa Akal Takht Pupul Jayakar Sant Mat Fifteenth Century CE Singh Ji Swami Ramdev Hola Mohalla Guru Disciple Relationship Orthodox Sikh thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their own (narrowly denominational) terms, but in terms of their diverse, complex, rapidly evolving engagements with ‘society’ broadly conceived. The book explores and illuminates the significance of female gurus, gurus from the perspective of Islam, imbrications of guru-ship and slavery in pre-modern India, connections between gurus and power, governance and economic liberalization in modern and contemporary India, vexed questions of sexuality and guru-ship, gurus’ charitable endeavours, the cosmopolitanism of gurus in contexts of spiritual tourism, and the mediation of gurus via technologies of electronic communication. Bringing together internationally renowned scholars from religious studies, political science, history, sociology and anthropology, The Guru in South Asia provides exciting and original new insights into South Asian guru-ship. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2025-05-22T05:11:21Z 2025-05-22T05:11:21Z 2025-05-21T14:57:22Z 2012 book ONIX_20250521T155841_9781136298073_64 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102284 9781136298073 9780203116258 9780415510196 9781136298028 9781138785229 9781136298066 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160117 eng Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102284/1/9781136298073.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203116258 10.4324/9780203116258 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 a3dd6eb1-250e-41c5-ad10-70fe852b7061 9781136298073 9780203116258 9780415510196 9781136298028 9781138785229 9781136298066 Routledge 272 Oxford [...] open access |
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