{"product_id":"self-surrender-prapatti-to-god-in-shrivaishnavism","title":"Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism","description":"\u003cp\u003eFilling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South India. This original study shows that medieval sectarian formation in its theological dimension is a fluid and ambivalent enterprise, where conflict and differentiation are presaged on \"sharing\", whether of a common canon, saint or rituals or two languages (Tamil and Sanskrit), or of a \"meta-social\" arena such as the temple.Srilata Mueller, a member of the Shrivaishnava community, argues that the core ideas of prapatti in these religious texts reveal the description of a heterogeneous theological concept. Demonstrating that this concept is theologically moulded by the emergence of new literary genres, Mueller puts forward the idea that this original understanding of prapatti is a major contributory cause to the emergence of sectarian divisions among the Shrivaishnavas, which lead to the formation of two sub-sects, the Tenkalai and the Vatakalia, who stand respectively, for the \"cat\" and \"monkey\" theological positions.Making an important contribution to contemporary Indian and Hindu thinking on religion, this text provides a new intellectual history of medieval Indian religion. It will be of particular interest to scholars of Shrivaishnava and also Hindu and Indian religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44521184887022,"sku":"9780415391856","price":244.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415391856.jpg?v=1702048131","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/self-surrender-prapatti-to-god-in-shrivaishnavism","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}