Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India

Christian Lee Novetzke

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Paper, 336 pages, 25 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14185-7
$27.50 / £19.00

June, 2008
Cloth, 336 pages, 25 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14184-0
$55.00 / £38.00

List of Illustrations

Preface: The Shape of the Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Namdev, Bhakti, Public, and Memory

Part 1. Practices of Memory

1. A Sant Between Memory and History

2. Public Performance and Corporate Authorship

3. Orality and Literacy/Performance and Permanence

Part 2. Publics of Memory

4. Namdev and the Namas: Anamnetic Authorship from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

5. Memories of Suffering in the Eighteenth Century

6. A Sant for the Nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

7. The Idea of Namdev in Two Films in the Twentieth Century

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• South Asian Studies

About the Author

Christian Lee Novetzke is assistant professor at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies in the South Asia Program and Comparative Religion Program.

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