Description: Shared Devotion, Shared Food : Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India, Hardcover by Keune, Jon, ISBN 0197574831, ISBN-13 9780197574836, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit
leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkars judgment seriously, Jon Keune argues that, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more
complex.
Shared Devotion, Shared Food explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where
this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, Shared Devotion, Shared Food reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways
over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.
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Book Title: Shared Devotion, Shared Food : Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Ques
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Shared Devotion, Shared Food : Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Hinduism / General, Social History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, History
Author: Jon Keune
Item Length: 6.3 in
Item Width: 9.5 in
Format: Hardcover
