Nancy M. Martin

Mirabai (eBook, PDF)

The Making of a Saint

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities. Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197694954
• Artikelnr.: 68321231

Autorenporträt

Nancy M. Martin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Chapman University and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Acknowledgements
* Note on Transliteration and Dates
* Introduction: In Search of Mirabai
* Chapter 1: Embodying Devotion in a Woman's Body: Mirabai among the
Saints
* Chapter 2: Participation and Transformation: Mira as Rapjut
Renouncer, Varkari Devotee, and Pativrata of God
* Chapter 3: History, Heroism, and the Politics of Identity: Mirabai in
Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
* Chapter 4: Weaver Woman and Lover Extraordinaire: Romance and
Resistance in Rural Rajasthan
* Chapter 5: Mobilizing Mirabai, Mobilizing Women in the Struggle for
Independence
* Chapter 6: Cultural Icon for a Nation in the Making
* Conclusion
* Selected Bibliography
* Index