{"product_id":"songs-of-saints-of-india-ide042","title":"Songs of the Saints of India","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eIDE042\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/it\/book-author\/john%20stratton%20hawley%20mark%20juergensmeyer\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"John Stratton Hawley \u0026amp; Mark Juergensmeyer\"\u003eJohn Stratton Hawley \u0026amp; Mark Juergensmeyer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/it\/book-publisher\/oxford%20university%20press%20new%20delhi\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Oxford University Press, New Delhi\"\u003eOxford University Press, New Delhi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2019\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e9780195694208\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e266 (B \u0026amp; W Figures: 6)\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e8.8\" X 5.8\"\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e This book presents the life stories and poems of six well-known saint-poets of north India - Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas - who have contributed more to the religious vocabulary of Hinduism in north India today than any voices before or since. In worship, in education, even in politics, modern Hinduism sings their tune.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e For half a millennium, these saints poems have circulated from the banks of the Yamuna to the rice fields of Bihar and back to the deserts of Rajasthan. They have provided a language for many of life's most vivid concerns - cruelty and loneliness, status and intimacy, hope and infatuation, and the maddening transitoriness of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e With a biographical and interpretive essay on each poet and a selection of representative verses in original translation, this book offers a complete introduction to a literate that transcends the boundaries we associate with religion, and those of India as well. This new edition of the Songs of the Saints of India will appeal to travelers, students, and anyone eager to hear the 'music' of north Indian religion and see its hidden contours. It will also be of interest to all those in the fields of Indian literature, culture, religion, history, and South Asian studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Stratton Hawley\u003c\/i\u003e is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of religion, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Juergensmeyer\u003c\/i\u003e is professor of sociology and director of the program in Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eExcerpts from Review:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e 'Between the covers of this book live six extraordinary North Indian saint-poets. Hawley tells their lives in the flowing, good-humoured prose that gracefully conceals his great care and scholarship. Then, with Mark Juergensmeyer, he offers us a generous selection of each saint-poet's poems, translated in verse forms that are fluent, sparkling, vivid, never far from the tones of speech. Through them, as rarely before this, we hear the original voices: we hear Kabir cut through sham with his wit. Nayak meditate, Surdas shape his words to his vision, and Mira sing. We have waited long for an anthology of Hindi \u003ca href=\"\/it\/article\/bhakti_sutras\"\u003ebhakti\u003c\/a\u003e of this range, authority, and literary excellence.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e - A.K. Ramanujan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e 'The author's deep knowledge of the bhakti traditions of north India is evident both in their choice of representative poetry for each of the six saints and in the renderings of their poetry, which are so skillfully fashioned that one can easily hear the nuances of each poet's voice in registers of contemporary English.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e - The Journal of Asian Studies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e 'This is one of those rare and wonderful books that makes first-rate scholarship immediately accessible to the non-specialist.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e - Religious Studies Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/center\u003e \u003ctable border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"7\"\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface to the Revised Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e xi\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuide to Transliteration and Pronunciation\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e xxi\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd width=\"10%\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd width=\"100%\"\u003e Introduction\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 3\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e ONE\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Ravidas\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 9\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e TWO\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Kabir\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 35\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e THREE\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Nanak\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 63\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e FOUR\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Surdas\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 91\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e FIVE\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Mirabai\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 119\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e SIX\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Tulsidas\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 143\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 175\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 217\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlossary\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 225\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"2\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 235\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/tbody\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042aa.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042bb.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042cc.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042dd.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042ee.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042ff.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042hh.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.exoticindia.com\/images\/products\/original\/books-2017\/ide042ii.jpg\"\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Occultnthings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44623454929197,"sku":"IDE042","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2094\/2117\/products\/songs_of_the_saints_of_india_ide042.jpg?v=1677795146","url":"https:\/\/occultnthings.com\/it\/products\/songs-of-saints-of-india-ide042","provider":"Occult-N-Things","version":"1.0","type":"link"}