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The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritamrita and the Grammar of Religious Tradition

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Format
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780195392722
Author
Tony K. Stewart
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Book Title
The Final Word
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The Gaudiya Vaisnava movement is one of the most vibrant religious groups in all of South Asia. Unlike most devotional communities that flourished in 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Bengal, however, the group had formal founder. Today its devotees are uniform in their devotion to the historical figure of Krishna Caitanya (1486-1533), whom they believe to be t just Krishna incarnate, but Radha and Krishna fused into a single androgyus form. But Caitanya neither founded the community that coalesced around him r named a successor. Tony Stewart seeks to discover how, with central leadership, institutional authority, and geographic center, a religious community nevertheless comes to successfully define itself, fix its can and flourish. He finds the answer in the brilliant hagiographical exercise in Sanskrit and Bengali titled the Caitanya Caritamrita (CC) of Krishnadasa Kaviraja. Written about 75 years after Caitanya's passing, the CC became the proof text of the community. The reason it was so powerful, says Stewart, lies in its deployment of a series of sophisticated rhetorical strategies to persuade its readers without appearing to do so, seeming to defer the arrogated authority to Caitanya himself. Although the CC started as a hagiography like any other, an index to what was proper and good in ritual and belief, it became a sign pointing the way to salvation, and then an icon, a metonym of the tradition itself, so much so that manuscripts dating from the earliest times can w be found physically worshiped on altars in temples in Bengal.

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Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-10
0195392728
ISBN-13
9780195392722
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NY
Spine
36mm
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Illustrations
Author Biography
<br>Tony K. Stewart is Professor of South Asian Religions and Literatures at North Carolina State University. He divides his time between Raleigh, London, and Dhaka.<br>
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Author(s)
Tony K. Stewart
Date of Publication
20/05/2010
Subject
Non-Christian Religions
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Genre
Non-Christian Religions
Country of Publication
United States

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