Explores the nature and function of bhakti or devotional involvement in religious practice in India in areas where it is seldom sought or where its existence has been doubted or even denied.
Chapter 1 Bhakti and the ?g Veda—Does it Appear There or Not?, Jeanine Miller; Chapter 2 Love and Devotion in Buddhism, Karel Werner; Chapter 3 The Dynamics of Paritta Chanting in Southern Buddhism, Peter Harvey; Chapter 4 Psychological Analysis of Bhakti, T.R. Sharma; Chapter 5 The Pervasiveness of Bhakti in the Bh?gavata Pur??a, Freda Matchett; Chapter 6 The Place of Bhakti in Âa?kara’s Ved?nta, Jacqueline Gaynor Suthren Hirst; Chapter 7 The Role of Bhakti in the Da?an?m? Order, Wade H. Dazey; Chapter 8 The Subject, the Object, the Path and the Goal: Âaiva Devotion in a Monistic Setting, Gavin Flood; Chapter 9 Violence and the Goddess, David Smith; Chapter 10 Some Reflections on Hindu Bhakti Iconography, Christopher Aslet;
