Religious individualisation and collective bhakti

The author remains a mettlesome subject in late modernism', writes Christian Novetzke, 'confounding a simple definition of what it is to be an author' (Novetzke 2003, 214).1 Novetzke skilfully unravels the distinct layers of authorship that went into the conferral of 'authority' on one particular figure, Namdev, in traditions 'not born of modernity yet fully present in the modern world'. In doing so, he argues against the modern notion of the author as a solitary, creative figure. In this chapter, I seek to extend his insights about 'corporate authorship' to an examination of the interface and mutual imbrication of individuality, individualisation, and institutionalisation of authors and texts in Odisha, eastern India in 'medieval' and 'modern' times

Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History

• Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive / Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective

  Open Access•Riccarda Suitner, Martin Mulsow et al.•Religiöse Individualisierung in…•2020

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• Struggling with Kṛṣṇa

  Open Access•Ujaan Ghosh•International Journal of Hindu…•2025

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• Laborers and Voyagers

  Roger Chartier, J A Gonzalez•diacritics•1992

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• Divining an Author

  Christian Lee Novetzke•History of Religions•2003

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