Mirabai
The Making of a Saint
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9780197772591
Publication date:
22/11/2023
Paperback
400 pages
Price: 795.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780197772591
Publication date:
22/11/2023
Paperback
400 pages
Nancy M. Martin
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries.
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Nancy M. Martin
Description
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries.
In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities.
Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.
About the author
Nancy M. Martin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Chapman University and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
Nancy M. Martin
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction: In Search of Mirabai
Chapter 1: Embodying Devotion in a Woman's Body: Mirabai among the Saints
Chapter 2: Participation and Transformation: Mira as Rapjut Renouncer, Varkari Devotee, and Pativrata of God
Chapter 3: History, Heroism, and the Politics of Identity: Mirabai in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
Chapter 4: Weaver Woman and Lover Extraordinaire: Romance and Resistance in Rural Rajasthan
Chapter 5: Mobilizing Mirabai, Mobilizing Women in the Struggle for Independence
Chapter 6: Cultural Icon for a Nation in the Making
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Nancy M. Martin
Review
"This book is valuable today for its knowledge and insights into the life of a Hindu woman poet as it demonstrates the power of devotion that transcends local contexts and inspires for diverse conversations." - Dr. Atola Longkumer, United Theological College,"This book is valuable today for its knowledge and insights into the life of a Hindu woman poet as it demonstrates the power of devotion that transcends local contexts and inspires diverse conversations." - Atola Longkumer, MIST 41.1,"The scholarly work involved in producing this volume was surely prodigious: tracking down early versions of the saint's songs and stories, as well as meticulous comparisons of various versions-oral, dramatic, printed, and cinematic. Enabling the reader to understandthe ways in which Mirabai's story was adapted, used and revered over the last five hundred years offers a true segue into the idiosyncratic fabric of Indian culture." - Janet M. Powers, Religion,"Martin's book considers the cultural, spiritual, and gender dynamics that shape the fluid-yet continually and globally relevant-image of Mirabai. The book will thus be relevant not only to scholars and general audiences interested in studying Mirabai's poems and images but also to researchers from a variety of backgrounds." - Zsuzsanna Szugyiczki, Religious Studies Review,"As a study of a bhakti saint, this book is exceptional in the historical range it covers; further, it is a long-awaited monograph centered on a female bhakta(one of very few) that brings to light the glaring dearth of scholarship on genderwithin the study of bhakti. Martin's book successfully demonstrates a rigorous study of gender within bhakti traditions and, hopefully, sets the stage for many more to come." - Aalekhya Malladi, International Journal of Hindu Studies
Nancy M. Martin
Description
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries.
In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities.
Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.
About the author
Nancy M. Martin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Chapman University and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction: In Search of Mirabai
Chapter 1: Embodying Devotion in a Woman's Body: Mirabai among the Saints
Chapter 2: Participation and Transformation: Mira as Rapjut Renouncer, Varkari Devotee, and Pativrata of God
Chapter 3: History, Heroism, and the Politics of Identity: Mirabai in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
Chapter 4: Weaver Woman and Lover Extraordinaire: Romance and Resistance in Rural Rajasthan
Chapter 5: Mobilizing Mirabai, Mobilizing Women in the Struggle for Independence
Chapter 6: Cultural Icon for a Nation in the Making
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Scott H. Hendrix
Adam J. Silverstein
Bharati Puri
A Freethinking Cultural Nationalist
Alaka Atreya Chudal
History, Literature, and Identity
J.S. Grewal
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, Brian A. Hatcher
The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice
Gavin Flood
Vinay Lal
St. Anselm, Brian Davies, G. R. Evans
Richard Bauckham
