Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
Editat de Karen Pechilis, Amy-Ruth Holten Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iul 2025
This book's identification of devotional practices of looking, such as materializing memory, mirroring and immaterializing portraits, and shaping the return look, connect material and visual cultures as well as illustrate modes of established and experimental image usage.
Bhakti is one of the most-studied aspects of Indic devotionalism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song, and vivid hagiographies of saints. The diverse devotional visualities analyzed in this book meaningfully circulate bhakti images in past and present, generating their renewed relationship to contemporary concerns.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Patrice M. and John F. Kelly Fellowship in Arts & Letters at Drew University, USA.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350214224
ISBN-10: 1350214221
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 70 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350214221
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 70 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Looking Again at Devotion, Karen Pechilis (Drew University, USA) and Amy-Ruth Holt (independent scholar, USA)
Part I: Materializing Memory
1. The Beginnings of Mass-Produced Devotional Prints in Calcutta, Richard H. Davis (Bard College, USA)
2. Expanding Meanings of Bhakti in Bengali American Home Shrines, Ashlee Norene Andrews (University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA)
3. Merchant Patronage and Royal Hanumans: A Modern Devotional Visuality, R. Jeremy Saul (Mahidol University, Thailand)
4. Evolving Material Authority: Devotion, History, and the Svaminarayana Museum, Shruti Patel (Salisbury University, USA)
Part II: Mirroring and Immaterializing Portraits
5. Kabir in Indo-Muslim Visual and Literary Culture, Murad Khan Mumtaz (Williams College, USA)
6. The Devotional Role of Paintings and Photographs in the Pushti Marga, Shandip Saha (Athabascau University, Canada)
7. The Iconic Surdas, John Stratton Hawley (Barnard College, Columbia University, USA)
8. The Visual Multiplicity and Materiality of Guru Nityananda's Portraits, Amy-Ruth Holt (independent scholar, USA)
9. Darsan in Twelve Ways: Portraying the Divine in Early Svaminarayana Art, Ankur Desai (The Kansas City Art Institute, USA)
Part III: Shaping the Return Look
10. Bhakti and Looking at What We Do Not Want to See, Karen Pechilis (Drew University, USA)
11. Mira's Iconography: From Miniature to Movie, Heidi Pauwels (University of Washington, USA)
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction: Looking Again at Devotion, Karen Pechilis (Drew University, USA) and Amy-Ruth Holt (independent scholar, USA)
Part I: Materializing Memory
1. The Beginnings of Mass-Produced Devotional Prints in Calcutta, Richard H. Davis (Bard College, USA)
2. Expanding Meanings of Bhakti in Bengali American Home Shrines, Ashlee Norene Andrews (University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA)
3. Merchant Patronage and Royal Hanumans: A Modern Devotional Visuality, R. Jeremy Saul (Mahidol University, Thailand)
4. Evolving Material Authority: Devotion, History, and the Svaminarayana Museum, Shruti Patel (Salisbury University, USA)
Part II: Mirroring and Immaterializing Portraits
5. Kabir in Indo-Muslim Visual and Literary Culture, Murad Khan Mumtaz (Williams College, USA)
6. The Devotional Role of Paintings and Photographs in the Pushti Marga, Shandip Saha (Athabascau University, Canada)
7. The Iconic Surdas, John Stratton Hawley (Barnard College, Columbia University, USA)
8. The Visual Multiplicity and Materiality of Guru Nityananda's Portraits, Amy-Ruth Holt (independent scholar, USA)
9. Darsan in Twelve Ways: Portraying the Divine in Early Svaminarayana Art, Ankur Desai (The Kansas City Art Institute, USA)
Part III: Shaping the Return Look
10. Bhakti and Looking at What We Do Not Want to See, Karen Pechilis (Drew University, USA)
11. Mira's Iconography: From Miniature to Movie, Heidi Pauwels (University of Washington, USA)
Index
Recenzii
The content of the essays is quite sophisticated and offers nicely nuanced explorations of the visual component of bhakti. Scholars of Hinduism and the visual arts will appreciate this volume.
Delving into this underexplored dimension of Hindu devotion, this volume makes an invaluable and engaging contribution to our understanding of bhakti. Collectively the essays invite readers to gaze into its immensely rich visual practices and varied imaginings of its most beloved saints, portrayed and embodied to facilitate devotion but equally to foster or to radically challenge spiritual and social complacency.
Devotional Visualities offers compelling perspectives on visual cultures, devotional imagery, and mediated networks. Exploring an array of Indic contexts, this wide-ranging collection of essays highlights ways in which religious participation can be reimagined through a focus on visuality and mediation. It is a vital and highly original contribution which raises critical questions about the material cultures and lived experiences of devotion. It will spark interest across disciplines.
[A] powerful contribution that augments an already exciting field of study . Karen Pechilis and Amy-Ruth Holt have invited readers into a fascinating world of devotional visualities and they are all the better for it.
Delving into this underexplored dimension of Hindu devotion, this volume makes an invaluable and engaging contribution to our understanding of bhakti. Collectively the essays invite readers to gaze into its immensely rich visual practices and varied imaginings of its most beloved saints, portrayed and embodied to facilitate devotion but equally to foster or to radically challenge spiritual and social complacency.
Devotional Visualities offers compelling perspectives on visual cultures, devotional imagery, and mediated networks. Exploring an array of Indic contexts, this wide-ranging collection of essays highlights ways in which religious participation can be reimagined through a focus on visuality and mediation. It is a vital and highly original contribution which raises critical questions about the material cultures and lived experiences of devotion. It will spark interest across disciplines.
[A] powerful contribution that augments an already exciting field of study . Karen Pechilis and Amy-Ruth Holt have invited readers into a fascinating world of devotional visualities and they are all the better for it.