Gil Ben-Herut is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, US. Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, US.Anne E. Monius is a Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts, US.

• Introduction; 1 From foolish ascetics to enemies of Śiva: the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil Śaiva literature; 2 Kālī dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land; 3 Arguing with Vaiṣṇavas, annihilating Jains: two religious others in early Kannada Śivabhakti hagiographies; 4 Bhakti Inc., Kerala: alienated selves and assimilated others; 5 The challenge of the swappable other: a framework for interpreting otherness in bhakti texts; 6 The political field of bhakti at the emergence of Marathi literature in premodern India; 7 The Datta saṃpradāya and its others; 8 Lost in the lake: Tulsīdās and his others; 9 Are there atheists in potholes? Mīmāṃsakas debate the path of bhakti

Gil Ben-Herut is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, US. Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, US.Anne E. Monius is a Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts, US.

• Introduction; 1 From foolish ascetics to enemies of Śiva: the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil Śaiva literature; 2 Kālī dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land; 3 Arguing with Vaiṣṇavas, annihilating Jains: two religious others in early Kannada Śivabhakti hagiographies; 4 Bhakti Inc., Kerala: alienated selves and assimilated others; 5 The challenge of the swappable other: a framework for interpreting otherness in bhakti texts; 6 The political field of bhakti at the emergence of Marathi literature in premodern India; 7 The Datta saṃpradāya and its others; 8 Lost in the lake: Tulsīdās and his others; 9 Are there atheists in potholes? Mīmāṃsakas debate the path of bhakti

Gil Ben-Herut is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, US. Jon Keune is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, US.Anne E. Monius is a Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts, US.

• Introduction; 1 From foolish ascetics to enemies of Śiva: the fate of Jains as religious others in Tamil Śaiva literature; 2 Kālī dances into the cremation grounds of the Tamil land; 3 Arguing with Vaiṣṇavas, annihilating Jains: two religious others in early Kannada Śivabhakti hagiographies; 4 Bhakti Inc., Kerala: alienated selves and assimilated others; 5 The challenge of the swappable other: a framework for interpreting otherness in bhakti texts; 6 The political field of bhakti at the emergence of Marathi literature in premodern India; 7 The Datta saṃpradāya and its others; 8 Lost in the lake: Tulsīdās and his others; 9 Are there atheists in potholes? Mīmāṃsakas debate the path of bhakti