Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism

Download or read book Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism written by Srilata Raman, 1962- and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling 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.