Were Shramana and Bhakti Movements against the Caste System?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Were Shramana and Bhakti Movements against the Caste System?

Original language description

This chapter contests the widespread idea of one large anti-caste and especially anti-brahmanical movement in Indian history. After critical analyses of the arguments presented for thsi &quot;unidted anti-caste&quot; hypothesis, author offers arguments for the conclusion that both early ascetic traditions and later bhakti movements upheld brahmanas and considered varna-dharma to be the best form of society. Second part of the chapter shows how religious explanation of caste as an endogamous unit has its roots in the Early Modern encounters between Portuguese colonisers and Indian society. In the following centuries, what was originally specific Christian concept of purity of blood acquired status of a neutral explanation.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Western Foundations of the Caste System

ISBN

978-3-319-38760-4

Number of pages of the result

43

Pages from-to

127-172

Number of pages of the book

274

Publisher name

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

Cham

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