Gil Ben-Herut
Biographic Data
| ID | 8754537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gil Ben-Herut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gil |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Herut |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-HERUT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From marginal to canonical: The afterlife of a late medieval Telugu hagiography in a Kannada translation
This article considers the literary fate of the Basava Purāṇa in its original thirteenth-century Telugu version and fourteenth-century translation to Kannada while highlighting the stark difference in each work’s reception: while the former text remained at the margins of what is conventionally regarded as “mainstream” Telugu literature, the latter became a part of a prevalent literary idiom and a foundational text for the Kannada Vīraśaivas. By …
Brahmin or Vīraśaiva? The Kannada Poet Rāghavāṅka between Idioms of Power and Devotion
Rāghavāṅka lived in the first half of the thirteenth century, when the Kannada devotional tradition we now call ‘Vīraśaivism’ or ‘Liṅgāyatism’ was at a nascent phase; the use of these labels was tenuous and the social boundaries of the local devotional movement less rigidly defined.1 Unlike a simplistic but common perception of early devotional movement in the Kannada region as being anti-Brahmanical, egalitarian, quasi-democratic, anti-ritualist…
Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers
'Siva's Saints
The Vīraśaiva tradition, which developed over the last eight centuries in the Kannada-speaking region of the Deccan plateau in India, holds a unique place in Hindu society. Its members do not adhere to the hierarchical structures of Brahminical-centered society, and they practice a distinct set of rituals, such as carrying a personal liṅga on their body and worshiping it individually (as well as in groups). The roots of the tradition are linked t…
The Society of Devotees: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada According to Harihara's Ragalegalu
The book’s third chapter examines the devotees’ society as it is described in the saints’ stories against the background of the tradition’s ideal of egalitarianism. The Kannada Śivabhakti tradition is famed for its uncompromising resistance to the Brahminical ideology of social supremacy, and the Ragaḷegaḷu stories exhibit different aspects of this resistance, one of which is the social diversity of the Śaiva protagonists. But it is exactly this …
Things Standing Shall Move: Temple Worship in Early Kannada Śivabhakti Hagiographies
Literary Genres and Textual Representations of Early Vīraśaiva History: Revisiting Ekānta Rāmayya’s Self-Beheading
Literary Genres and Textual Representations of Early Vīraśaiva History: Revisiting Ekānta Rāmayya’s Self-Beheading
Things Standing Shall Move: Temple Worship in Early Kannada Śivabhakti Hagiographies
'Siva's Saints
The Vīraśaiva tradition, which developed over the last eight centuries in the Kannada-speaking region of the Deccan plateau in India, holds a unique place in Hindu society. Its members do not adhere to the hierarchical structures of Brahminical-centered society, and they practice a distinct set of rituals, such as carrying a personal liṅga on their body and worshiping it individually (as well as in groups). The roots of the tradition are linked t…
The Society of Devotees: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada According to Harihara's Ragalegalu
The book’s third chapter examines the devotees’ society as it is described in the saints’ stories against the background of the tradition’s ideal of egalitarianism. The Kannada Śivabhakti tradition is famed for its uncompromising resistance to the Brahminical ideology of social supremacy, and the Ragaḷegaḷu stories exhibit different aspects of this resistance, one of which is the social diversity of the Śaiva protagonists. But it is exactly this …
Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers
From marginal to canonical: The afterlife of a late medieval Telugu hagiography in a Kannada translation
This article considers the literary fate of the Basava Purāṇa in its original thirteenth-century Telugu version and fourteenth-century translation to Kannada while highlighting the stark difference in each work’s reception: while the former text remained at the margins of what is conventionally regarded as “mainstream” Telugu literature, the latter became a part of a prevalent literary idiom and a foundational text for the Kannada Vīraśaivas. By …
Brahmin or Vīraśaiva? The Kannada Poet Rāghavāṅka between Idioms of Power and Devotion
Rāghavāṅka lived in the first half of the thirteenth century, when the Kannada devotional tradition we now call ‘Vīraśaivism’ or ‘Liṅgāyatism’ was at a nascent phase; the use of these labels was tenuous and the social boundaries of the local devotional movement less rigidly defined.1 Unlike a simplistic but common perception of early devotional movement in the Kannada region as being anti-Brahmanical, egalitarian, quasi-democratic, anti-ritualist…
Art (5 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works)