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Pub Date2019
ISBN9780231548830
Pages456
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A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India

Patton Burchett
Columbia University Press

In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism.