Research Catalog

Title

Religion and public memory : a cultural history of Saint Namdev in India / Christian Lee Novetzke.

Author

Novetzke, Christian Lee, 1969-

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xxii, 309 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Christian Lee Novetzke considers the way social memory coheres around the figure of Namdev from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the practices that situate Namdev's memory in multiple historical publics. Focusing primarily on Maharashtra and drawing on ethnographies of devotional performance, archival materials, scholarly historiography, and popular media, especially film, Novetzke vividly illustrates how religious communities in India preserve their pasts and, in turn, create their own historical narratives."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Cultural history of Saint Namdev in India

Subjects

• Bhakti
• Hinduism and culture > India > Maharashtra
• Nāmadeva, 1270-1350 > Influence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-295) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Namdev, Bhakti, Public, and Memory -- A Sant Between Memory and History -- Public Performance and Corporate Authorship -- Orality and Literacy/Performance and Permanence -- Namdev and the Namas : Anamnetic Authorship from the Sixteenth of Nineteenth Centuries -- Memories of Suffering in the Eighteenth Century -- A Sant for the Nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- The Idea of Namdev in Two Films in the Twentieth Century.

ISBN

• 9780231141840 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 023114184X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231512565 (e-book)
• 0231512562 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2008007050

OCLC

• 184821794
• SCSB-12818933

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library