Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions Edited by Brian Black and Laurie Patton. Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religions, Philosophy, Literature, and History, 4. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xii + 265. Cloth

Steven M. Vose

doi:10.1111/rsr.12612

Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions Edited by Brian Black and Laurie Patton. Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religions, Philosophy, Literature, and History, 4. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xii + 265. Cloth

Religious Studies Review ◽

10.1111/rsr.12612 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 42 (3) ◽

pp. 222-222

Author(s):

Steven M. Vose

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Asian Religions

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Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations and Resistances, by Matthew Schmalz and Peter Gottschalk (eds.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011. 253 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4384-3323-3 (hardback). $24.95. ISBN 978-1-4384-33

Religions of South Asia ◽

10.1558/rosa.v8i3.19985 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 378-380

Author(s):

John Zavos

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

South Asian ◽

State University ◽

Asian Religions

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Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions

10.4324/9781315576978 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Asian Religions

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Poetry as Prayer

Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190889814.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 159-196

Author(s):

Hamsa Stainton

Keyword(s):

Fourteenth Century ◽

South Asian ◽

Asian Religions ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Praise Poetry

This chapter develops the study of poetry as prayer. It reviews recent scholarship on prayer and evaluates the perils and potential of prayer as a category of analysis in the study of South Asian religions. Then, focusing on an important and previously unstudied text from fourteenth-century Kashmir—Jagaddhara Bhaṭṭa’s Stutikusumāñjali (Flower-Offering of Praise)—it analyzes various types of prayer sheltered under the umbrella of the stotra genre. In addition, it explores two creative ways of interpreting poetic prayer. First, it examines how Jagaddhara dramatizes Śiva’s interactions with Sarasvatī as the beautifully embodied form of poetry. Then it analyzes praise-poetry as a type of verbal prasāda, an offering received by a deity and then enjoyed by a community of devotees. Finally, the chapter argues that some of the evidence from Kashmir challenges a persistent view in the study of Hinduism that “true” prayer is a spontaneous outpouring of the heart.

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