Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court

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Personen und Körperschaften:	Stoker, Valerie (auth)
Titel:	Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
veröffentlicht:	Oakland, California University of California Press 2016
Schlagwörter:	History Asian History Religion: General Other Non-Christian Religions Vyasatirtha Hinduism Vijayanagar Empire Advaita Vedanta Brahmin Dvaita Vedanta Matha Moksha Sectarianism Smarta Tradition Sringeri
Quelle:	DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
Anmerkungen:	English

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Zusammenfassung:	How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vy?sat?rtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vy?sat?rtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.
Umfang:	1 electronic resource (230 p.)
ISBN:	luminos.18 9780520965461
Zugang:	Open Access
Anmerkungen:	English