A Genealogy of Devotion - by Patton E Burchett (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (<i>bhakti</i>) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. He focuses his analysis on the early modern period, when the rise of <i>bhakti</i> communities in North India transformed the religious landscape.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (<em>bhakti</em>) 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 <em>bhakti</em> communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism.</p><p><em>A Genealogy of Devotion</em> illuminates the complex historical factors at play in the growth of <em>bhakti</em> in Sultanate and Mughal India through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature. Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett's work explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North Indian communities. Focusing on the Rāmānandī <em>bhakti</em> community and the tantric Nāth <em>yogī</em>s, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility--an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition--that was often critical of tantric and yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era Orientalist depictions of <em>bhakti</em> as "religion" and tantra as "magic." Providing a broad historical view of <em>bhakti</em>, tantra, and yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly conceptions of them, <em>A Genealogy of Devotion</em> offers a bold new narrative of the history of religion in India.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A well-documented and written work which courageously confronts many different topics and tries to provide a wider perspective.--Archives de sciences sociales des religions<br><br>Provides a thorough analysis of the political, social, and cultural developments taking place in India before and during [1450 to 1750 CE] . . . Recommended.--Choice<br><br>Path-breaking.--World Minded<br><br>By situating Vaiṣṇava <i>bhakti</i> traditions within larger religious and political contexts, this ambitious and innovative work offers a refreshingly broad perspective on North Indian culture, along with a better appreciation of <i>bhakti</i>'s message and appeal in the early modern era. Changing trends in religious patronage, the impact of Sufism, the varieties of religious practice, how <i>bhakti</i> poets disparaged tantra and yoga<i>--</i>these are among the fascinating historical issues explored in Burchett's path-breaking study.--Cynthia Talbot, author of <i>The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000</i><br><br>Kudos to Patton E. Burchett for this rich, fine-grained historical analysis of the multifaceted relationships between the human agents of <i>bhakti</i>, tantra, yoga, and Sufism in Sultanate and Mughal India. Religious nationalists and other simpletons will find little comfort here.--David Gordon White, author of <i>The Yoga Sutra of Patañjali: A Biography</i><br><br>So wide-ranging in importance and so carefully and broadly researched, this is a book people will turn to for many, many years to come--both for its own special contribution and for a basic orientation to the field.--John Stratton Hawley, author of <i>A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement</i><br><br>Burchett's provocative study adeptly traces the transformation of popular religion in early modern North India from an age dominated by Śaiva, tantric, and yogic traditions to one permeated by Vaiṣṇava <i>bhakti</i> piety. His well-argued thesis is that a crucial element in this shift was the interaction with and influence of Persianate and Sufi religiosity and cultural practices.--Philip Lutgendorf, author of <i>Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey</i> and translator of <i>The Epic of Ram</i><br><br>Vibrant, lyrical, and elegantly crafted, <i>A Genealogy of Devotion</i> is a scholarly opera on the history of <i>bhakti</i> (devotion) in India. Burchett fundamentally changes the way we think about <i>bhakti</i>, leaving readers with a book that is truly inspired.--Christian Lee Novetzke, author of <i>The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Patton E. Burchett is assistant professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary.
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