Revisiting the Experiential World of Women's Bhakti Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3336708 |
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| Authors | Karen Pechilis (Drew University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 788 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14060788 |
| OpenAlex | W4380996919 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
My recent research on an early female bhakti saint brought to the fore differences between her perspective as represented in poetry attributed to her and her medieval biographer's representation of her concerns. Through that study, the widespread academic use in recent scholarship of traditional biographies to interpret female bhakti saints became especially visible and problematic to me. In this experimental essay, I consider what patterns we might find if we prioritize the poetry attributed to influential female bhakti saints, navigating the significant issues of subjectivity, voice, and utterance to discern the contours of their devotional subjectivity as an authoritative nexus for conceptualizing and expressing individual and group devotion. In contrast to scholarly assurances that female bhakti saints are internally steadfast or that they are mainly troubled by external situations, I argue that their devotional subjectivity voices their realization that diverse embodied experiences of contestation are generative for a shared sense of devotion
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · SAINT · Scholarship · Sociology · Subjectivity · Utterance · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy · Psychology
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