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Chapter 8 - Devotional Paths To The Divine
history in religion
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Overview
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*Ideas of a bhakti (devotion to a single god) developed between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.
*The Nayanars and the Alvars were saint-poets and were prominent in southern India.
*Shankara, Ramanuja, and Basavanna were prominent thinkers of southern India who shaped the idea of bhakti in the south.
*Many saints who preached the bhakti of Vitthala, a form of lord Vishnu, emerged from Maharashtra
*Nathapanthis, Siddhas, and Yogis were people that renounced the world and meditated to attain salvation.
*Sufis were Islamic mystics that preached love and devotion to God and rejected the Shariat of Muslim scholars.
*Sant Kabir was a poet and writer whose ideals and compositions shaped religious ideologies in northern India in the seventeenth century.
*Guru Nanak established Sikhism to preach worship to one god and love for fellow humans. And his successors turned Sikhism into a huge religion that has millions of followers today.
Themes
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*an overview of belief-systems, rituals, pilgrimages, and syncretic cults
*case studies: Kabir and Guru Nanak
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*Krishna Mirani
*Taikhum Ajmerwala
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