The final word : the Caitanya caritāmr̥ta and the grammar of religious tradition /

Stewart, Tony K., 1954-

The final word : the Caitanya caritāmr̥ta and the grammar of religious tradition / Tony K. Stewart. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Facing the peril of disintegration -- Coping with the enigma of divinity -- Early formal theories of Manifest Destiny -- The ascendancy of the erotic -- Hierarchizing theologies, sanctioning new practices -- The rhetoric of primer, commentary, canon -- A phenomenology of repetition : the self-replicating community -- The legacy of the Caitanya Caritamrta : four examples in the grammar of mimicry.

9780195392722 (hardback : alk. paper) 0195392728 (hardback : alk. paper)


Chaitanya, 1486-1534 --Cult.
Kr̥ṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, 1518- Śrīśrīcaitanyacaritāmr̥ta.


Chaitanya (Sect)--History.

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