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9780197574836

Shared Devotion, Shared Food Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India

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    9780197574836

  • ISBN10:

    0197574831

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2021-04-26
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, Jon Keune argues that, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex.

Shared Devotion, Shared Food explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, Shared Devotion, Shared Food reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.

Author Biography


Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He held postdoctoral fellowships in Houston and G?ttingen, and he earned a PhD from Columbia University. His research focuses on religion, society, and history in India and with a comparative eye to central Europe and East Asia. As co-founder of the Regional Bhakti Scholars Network in 2013, he is also deeply involved in collaborative research.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Part One
1. Religion and Social Change: Narratives of Outrage and Disappointment
2. Sightings of bhakti and its social impact
3. Bhakti and equality in Marathi print, 1854-1950

Part Two
4. The Complications of Eating Together
5. Memories of transgressive commensality
6. Restaging Transgressive Commensality
7. Bhakti in the Shadow of Ambedkar

Conclusion
Bibliography

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