Devotional Visualities Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures
Synopsis
This book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways. Communities of interpreters of bhakti images discussed in this book include not only a number of distinctive Hindu bhakti groups, but also artisans, diaspora women, South Asian Sufis, businessmen, dancers, and filmmakers.This book's identification of devotional practices of looking, such as materializing memory, mirroring and immaterializing portraits, and shaping the return look, connect material and visual cultures as well as illustrate modes of established and experimental image usage.Bhakti is one of the most-studied aspects of Indic devotionalism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song, and vivid hagiographies of saints. The diverse devotional visualities analyzed in this book meaningfully circulate bhakti images in past and present, generating their renewed relationship to contemporary concerns.Book details
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
- Author:
- Karen Pechilis and Amy-Ruth Holt
- ISBN:
- 9781350214200
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350214187
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2023-09-20
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Copyright by:
- Christie’s Images Ltd.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality