Devotional Visualities

Name: Devotional Visualities
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Karen Pechilis

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This book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways. Communities of interpreters of bhakti images discussed in this book include not only a number of distinctive Hindu bhakti groups, but also artisans, diaspora women, South Asian Sufis, businessmen, dancers, and filmmakers. 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.

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

332

Release Date:

2023-10-19

Publication Date:

2023-10-19

Publisher:

Bloomsbury 3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1350214183

ISBN13:

9781350214187

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

663 g

Height:

161 cm

Width:

240 cm

Thickness:

22 cm

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