Exploring Bhakti: Is Bhakti a Language of Power or of Protest?

February 23, 2016

This international conference celebrates contribution in the field of Bhakti scholarship and aims to shape the discourse of Bhakti literature in the future.

May 13-15, 2016
Yale University

In this age of shrinking distances and close encounters, a common global concern today is the need for developing the knowledge systems of understanding and interacting with the other in the multilateral societies. In India, due to various historical, political and economic factors, the need for such a dialogue was felt long back. In the medieval era, from the twelfth century onwards, when India’s political and cultural scene was so variegated, the response came through its literary and religious quarters— which were in a seamless existence. The poets and saints expressed themselves through a huge corpus of literary creations, especially in the vernaculars, as well as in Sanskrit.

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