Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/TpINwMN Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys? By: Srilata Raman Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415391856, 0415391857 eText ISBN: 9781134165377, 1134165374 Edition: 1st Pages: 256 Copyright year: 2006 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134165377R90 Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South India. This original study shows that medieval sectarian formation in its theological dimension is a fluid and ambivalent enterprise, where conflict and differentiation are presaged on sharing, whether of a common canon, saint or rituals or two languages (Tamil and Sanskrit), or of a meta-social arena such as the temple. Srilata Mueller, a member of the Shrivaishnava community, argues that the core ideas of prapatti in these religious texts reveal the description of a heterogeneous theological concept. Demonstrating that this concept is theologically moulded by the emergence of new literary genres, Mueller puts forward the idea that this original understanding of prapatti is a major contributory cause to the emergence of sectarian divisions among the Shrivaishnavas, which lead to the formation of two sub-sects, the Tenkalai and the Vatakalia, who stand respectively, for the cat and monkey theological positions. Making an important contribution to contemporary Indian and Hindu thinking on religion, this text provides a new intellectual history of medieval Indian religion. It will be of particular interest to scholars of Shrivaishnava and also Hindu and Indian religious studies. Additional ISBNs 9780415544641, 0415544645
