EBOOK Final Word:The Caitanya Caritamrita and the Grammar of Religious Tradition -

EBOOK Final Word:The Caitanya Caritamrita and the Grammar of Religious Tradition
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199889372
EAN: E4AADDCEEB
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Stron: 472
Data wydania: 2010
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In the early sixteenth century, a charismatic Bengali Brahmin, Visvambhara Misra,        inspired communities of worshipers in Bengal, Orissa, and Vraja with his teachings.          Misra took the ascetic name Krsna Caitanya, and his devotees quickly came to believe        he was divine. The spiritual descendents of these initial followers today comprise        the Gaudiya Vaisnava movement, one of the most vibrant religious groups in all of        South Asia.In The Final Word, Tony Stewart investigates how, with no central        leadership, no institutional authority, and no geographic center, a religious        community nevertheless came to define itself, fix its textual canon, and flourish.          The answer, he argues, can be found in a brilliant Sanskrit and Bengali        hagiographical exercise: the Caitanya Caritamrta of Krsnadasasa Kaviraja. Written        some seventy-five years after Caitanya's passing, Krsnadasa's text gathered and        synthesized the divergent theological perspectives and ritual practices that had        proliferated during and after Caitanya's life. It has since become the devotional        standard of the Gaudiya Vaisnava movement.The text's power, Stewart argues, derives        from its sophisticated use of rhetoric. The Caitanya Caritamrta persuades its        readers covertly, appearing to defer its arrogated authority to Caitanya himself.          Though the text started out as a hagiography like so many others-an index of        appropriate beliefs and ritual practices that points the way to salvation-its        influence has grown far beyond that. Over the centuries it has become an icon, a        metonym of the tradition itself. On occasion today it can even be seen worshiped        alongside images of Krsna and Caitanya on altars in Bengal.In tracing the origins,        literary techniques, and dissemination of the Caitanya Caritamrta, Stewart has        unlocked the history of the Gaudiya Vaisnavas, explaining the improbable unity of a        dynamic religious group.

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