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Religion, tradition, and ideology : pre-colonial South India /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2011
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| Series: | Oxford collected essays
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Table of Contents:
- The making of religious tradition : perspectives from pre-colonial south India
- Section 1: Purāṇic religion, bhakti, and religious traditions. From devotion and dissent to dominance : the bhakti of the Tamil Āl̤vārs and Nāyanārs
- Purāṇic religion and the evolution of the Tamil Śaiva tradition
- Śankara and purāṇic religion
- Vaiṣṇava concepts in early Tamil Nadu
- The sacred geography of the Murukan cult
- Section 2: Religion, canon and community. Patikam pāṭuvār : ritual singing as a means of communication in early medieval south India
- Caste and community : oscillating identities in pre-modern south India
- The maṭha : monachism as the base of a parallel authority structure
- Section III: Counter traditions : the śramaṇas. Buddhism in South India : patterns of patronage
- Jainism in Tamil Nadu : a historical overview
- Jainism in Andhra and Karnataka
- The bhakti movement and religious conflict in early medieval Tamil̤akam
- Section IV: Temple as symbol and metaphor. Symbol and metaphor : Temple architecture and iconography in south India
- Iconographic programme and political imagery in early medieval Tamil̤akam : The Rājasimheśvara and the Rājarājeśvara
- Bhāgavata scenes in Pallava and Cōḷa sculptures
- Tañjāvūr, the ceremonial city of the Cōḷas
- The Drāviḍa style of architecture : a historical perspective
- Section V: Ideology and sovereignty. The sovereignty of the divine : the Vaiṣṇava pantheon and temporal power in south India
- Ideology and the state in south India.