THE ORIGINS OF VIRASAIVA SECTS

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Item Code: NAB384
Publisher: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD.
Author: R. Blake Michael
Language: English
Edition: 1992
ISBN: 8120807766
Pages: 225
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 8.8" X 5.8"
Weight 450 gm
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Book Description
About the Book:

Origins of the Virasaiva Sects is probably the most thorough exploration of Virasaivism available in any language except Kannada. Already, the activities of founder/reformer Basava are well known throughout India and the world. Similarly, certain reformational aspects of Virasaivism have attracted the attention of Western scholarship.

Professor Michael's book, however, goes beyond all previous efforts in non-Kannada languages. It explores a crucial text, the Sunyasampadane, from Virasaivism's third century of development. There it finds sources for the seldom explored variety of forms and practices which characterize contemporary Virasaiva sectarian and denominational patterns.

Non-Virasaivas will finally have an opportunity to appreciate the richness and depth of this significant religious movement. Virasaivas themselves may acquire a new appreciation of their own tradition's breadth and sophistication. All impressive and informative.

About the Author:

PROFESSOR R. BLAKE MICHAEL is Swan-Collins-Allen Professor of World Religions and Christian Mission and also Director of Off-Campus Programs at Ohio, USA. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has also served as Adjunct Professor at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio.

Professor Michael holds the A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the M. Div A.M., and Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He has also studied at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore and has travelled throughout South India in the conduct of his research.

He has published half a dozen articles on Virasaivism in the journals of the American Oriental Society, Association of Asian Studies, American Academy of Religion, and in Numen. Many of these have been reprinted in the Basava Journal of Bangalore. He is currently researching for a monograph on Akkamahadevi.

CONTENTS
PREFACE

TRANSLITERATION

ABBREVIATIONS

CHAPTER

  1. INTRODUCTION: THE VIRASAIVA'S AND THEIR CONTEXT
    The Distinctness of Virasaivism
    Virasaivism's Relatedness to Brahmanical Orthodoxy
    Attempts to Understand the Virasaivas as a "Hindu" "Sect"
    Attempts to Understand the Virasaivas as "Protestants"
    Prospectus for a Typological Analysis of Virasaiva Associational Patterns
    Notes

  2. THE SUNYASAMPADANE: ITS CONTEXT, COMPOSITION, AND CONTEXT
    The Context: Vijayanagara
    The Composition: The Four Editions
    The Content: Twenty Tales of the Saints
    Patterns of Diversity in the Sunyasampadane
    Notes

  3. THE SOTERIOLOGY OF THE SUNYASAMPADANE: OBJECTIVIST v. SUBJECTIVIST
    The astavarana Scheme
    Dialectical Encounters in the Sunyasampadane
    The Three Views in Ritual Worship
    Notes

  4. THE ECCLESIOLOGY OF THE SUNYASAMPADANE: UNIVERSALIST v. PARTICULARIST
    Disputes over Membership in the Surana Band
    The Three Views on Society Membership
    Notes

  5. CONCLUSION
    Competing Associational Ideals in Ancient Virasaivism
    Denominational Factors in Contemporary Virasaivism
    Prospectus for Future Studies
    Notes
APPENDIXES
  1. Lingayatas in Karnataka (Estimate)
  2. The General Typology of Religious Associations and Its Cross-Cultural Applicability
CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDICES
Author Index of Vacana Quotations
Text-Source Index of Vacana Quotations
Kannada First-Line Index of Vacana Quotations
English First-Line Index of Vacana Quotations

Index with Glossary

Errata

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