[PAST EVENT] A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India

November 13, 2019
12pm - 1:30pm
Location
Wren Building, Room 204
111 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Open to the public
Wren Building

Part of the Brown-Bag Lunch Series, a discussion with Professor Patton Burchett about his recently published book, which illuminates the explosive rise of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism in the early modern period, highlighting new tensions between devotional and tantric-yogic religious sensibilities and the crucial influences of Persian culture and popular Sufism in shaping modern-day Hindu religious attitudes.