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Research Frontiers in Bhakti Movement and Social Transformation

Investigates how medieval bhakti movements challenged caste hierarchies and brahminical authority through devotional practices and counter-hegemonic spirituality.

Vernacular Devotion and the Subversion of Brahminical Authority
Bhakti Poetics as Instruments of Social Mobility
Gender, Ecstasy, and Transgressive Spirituality in Bhakti
Oral Transmission and the Democratization of Sacred Knowledge
Bhakti Aesthetics and the Politics of Emotional Labor
Caste Rupture in Sant Lineages and Devotional Communities
Feminine Divine and the Reconfiguration of Patriarchal Norms
Bhakti Architecture: Temples as Sites of Social Reorganization
Mendicant Networks and the Circulation of Radical Theology
Devotional Dissent: Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Institutional Power

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