Seeing through texts
doing theology among the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India
by Francis Xavier Clooney
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Seeing through Texts invites us into the world of south Indian Hinduism through a study of 100 songs of the Tiruvaymoli, the great masterpiece of the ninth-century Hindu saint Satkopan.
These unique songs, dedicated to the Hindu god Visnu/Krsna, lead us through poetic and imaginative, philosophical and moral reflections on the nature of the self and the world, ancient myths and temple worship, and the mystical moods of longing, desire, and love in which one seeks, loses, and finds again the God who loves us first.
The book is also a study of the interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli in the traditional Hindu Srivaisnava commentaries of the twelfth-fourteenth centuries, as well as a comparative theological study which explores the implication of the songs and their commentaries for readers from outside the Srivaisnava tradition.
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Doctrines, Religion, Śrī Vaishṇava (Sect), India, religion, VaishnavismPeople
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Seeing through texts: doing theology among the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India
1996, State University of New York Press
in English
0791429954 9780791429952
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-342) and indexes.
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