Sachi K. Patel, Politics and Religion in Eighteenth-Century India. Jaisingh II and the Rise of Public Theology in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
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Monika Horstmann, « Sachi K. Patel, Politics and Religion in Eighteenth-Century India. Jaisingh II and the Rise of Public Theology in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, ID : 10.4000/assr.73869
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By the 16th century, bhakti had become a dominant religious stance in North India. On the part of the bhakti sects, this led to a revision of the established Hindu dharma. According to this, the performance of ritual, karma, or righteous deeds in general, was mandatory. If bhakti was freely accorded grace beyond human agency, however, what would be the use of ritual or righteous deeds? Around this revolved a debate among Vaishnava, especially Krishnaïte, theologians whose center was the regi...