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Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures

Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures

Pechilis, Karen
Holt, Amy-Ruth

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion

Hinduism

ISBN10: 1350214183
ISBN13: 9781350214187
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 19 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This open access 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.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Patrice M. and John F. Kelly Fellowship in Arts & Letters at Drew University, USA.

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