RLG205H5 Lecture 9: lecture 9

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14 May 2011
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Week 9 bhakt i: erot ics and possession. Intimate, material, carnal, physical love to talk about spiritual experience! Is a historical transformation which happened in 6 9 century ce (common era). Bhakti is a small change that spreads to refigure but not replace older traditions. Bhakti is new but not radically new -> it draws upon a whole range of already existing things, comes from the story of mahabharata and more specifically the gita (story of arjuna and k rishna). The two theistic traditions of saivas and vaisnavas lead to the development of. So bhakti is mostly for vaisnavas and saivas, but also in other religions too. Gupta period 320 540 ce -> for gupta empire which is a major empire. Bhakti started in south india (in tamil language) and moved north. + music => sing as a religious practice: ecstacy. : withdraw from the world and the senses. Bhakti: need to possess god and be possessed by him.

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