Devotional Literature in South Asia

List of conference members; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Sacred Places and Sites: 1. Govardhan, the Eater hill Charlotte Vaudeville; 2. The Manbhaus' seat on Ramtek Hill Hans Bakker; Part II. Formulation and Transmission of Religious Attitudes: 3. Singers' repertoires in western India Winand M. Callewaert; 4. An oral theology: Ddpanth homilies Monika Thiel-Horstmann; 5. Some aspects of the development of bhakti traditions, with especial reference to the Hindi poems attributed to Rmnand Enzo Turbiani; 6. The Hindu model of social organisation and the bhakti movement: the example of Vallabha's sampradya Maya Burger; Part III. Interaction Between Islamic and Indian Religious Attitudes: 7. Sf influence in the Ekanth-bhgavat: some observations on the text and its historical context H. van Skyhawk; 8. How a Muslim looks at Hindu bhakti Peter Gaeffke; 9. Muslim devotional literature in Gujarati: Islam and bhakti Franoise Mallison; 10. The Ismaili ginns as devotional literature Ali S. Asani; Part IV. Literary and Religious Traditions in Maharashtra: 11. A grammar of bhakti: Pacavrtika V. D. Kulkarni; 12. Authorship and redactorship of the Jndev Gth Catharina Kiehnle; 13. Mtpitrbhakti: some aspects of the development of the Pundalka legend in Marathi literature Erik Reenberg Sand; 14. Tukrm: the making of a saint S. G. Tulpule; 15. Sadguru and the Holy Spirit Christopher Shelke SJ; 16. Special features of the Vrkar cult as regards sdhan G. Morje; Part V. Some Particular Expressions of the Sf Presence in North India: 17. The text of Alakh Bn S. C. R. Weightman; 18. Kutuban's Miragvat: its content and interpretation S. M. Pandey; 19. Krsnaite and Nth elements in the poetry of the eighteenth-century Panjabi Sf Bullhe h Denis Matringe; Part VI. Some Topics in the Krsna Poetry of North India: 20. Three-three-two versus four-by-four: metrical frames for the padas of Srds K. E. Bryant; 21. Creative enumeration in the vinaya poetry of Srds John Stratton Hawley; 22. The padas attributed to Nandds R. S. McGregor; 23. Synoptic and sectarian bhakti in the poetry of Dhruvds Rupert Snell; Part VII. Discussion of the Rma Tradition in North and North-East India: 24. Taranisena: a parochialised devotional motif W. L. Smith; 25. Tulsds and Confucius Jin Dinghan; Part VIII. Modernisation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: 26. Haricandra of Banaras and the reassessment of Vaisnava bhakti in the late nineteenth century Vasudha Dalmia-Lderitz; 27. A reinterpretation of bhakti theology: from the Pustimrg to the Brahma Kumaris R. K. Barz; Index.