Time Schedule:
Heidi R. Pauwels
RELIG 490
Seattle Campus
Topics vary with each offering.
Class description
The topic of this course is the devotional literature of “medieval” India (South Asia), covering the period from the middle of the second millennium CE through today, focusing on the so-called bhakti literature. During the course some of the most influential works of the Indian devotional tradition will be read and discussed in their cultural context, with an eye especially to how these texts are interpreted and used in contemporary art, religion, and politics. These include the South as well as North Indian devotional works in a variety of Indian languages. Although the works covered in the course were originally composed in Indian languages, they will be read in English translation. No knowledge of an Indian language is presupposed.
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