| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Savoring God -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Citation -- Introduction: Reading between Granada and Vṛndāvana -- 1. Savoring Theopoetics -- 2. Absent and Present -- 3. Sensorial Theopoetics -- 4. Secretly Together -- Conclusions: Savoring, Reading, Comparing -- Notes -- List of Works Cited -- Spanish Glossary -- Sanskrit Glossary -- General Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book compares two mystical works central to the Christian Discalced Carmelite and the Hindu Bhakti traditions: the sixteenth-century Spanish Cántico espiritual (Spiritual Canticle), by John of the Cross, and the Sanskrit Rāsa Līlā, originated in the oral tradition. These texts are examined alongside theological commentaries: for the Cántico, the Comentarios written by John of the Cross on his own poem; for Rāsa Līlā, the foundational commentary by Srīdhara Swāmi along with commentaries by the sixteenth-century theologian Jīva Goswāmī, from the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava school, and other Gauḍīya theologians. The phrase "savoring God" in the title conveys the Spanish gustar a Dios (to savor God) and the Sanskrit madhura bhakti rasa (the sweet savor of divine love). While "savoring" does not mean exactly the same thing for these theologians, they use the term to define a theopoetics at work in their respective traditions. The book's methodology transposes their notions of "savoring" to advance a comparative theopoetics grounded in the interaction of poetry and theology. The first chapter explains in detail how theopoetics is regarded considering each text and how they are compared. The comparison is then laid out across Chapters 2, 3, and 4, each of which examines one of the three central moments of the theopoetic experience of savoring that is represented in the Cántico and Rāsa Līlā: the absence and presence of God, the relationship between embodiment and savoring, and the fulfilment of the encounter between the divine and the lovers"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed January 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591. Cántico espiritual.
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| SUBJECT |
Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80121195
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Cántico espiritual (John of the Cross, Saint) fast |
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Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa fast |
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Christianity and other religions -- Hinduism.
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Hinduism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Mystical union.
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Mysticism.
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Mysticism -- Hinduism.
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mysticism.
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Christianity
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Hinduism
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Interfaith relations
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Mystical union
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Mysticism
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Mysticism -- Hinduism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021009159 |
| ISBN |
9780190907396 |
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0190907398 |
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9780190907389 |
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019090738X |
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0190907371 |
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9780190907372 |
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