Christian Lee Novetzke: 2 books

Book cover of Religion and Public Memory

Religion and Public Memory

A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India

by Christian Lee Novetzke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory for over eight centuries. Born in the Marathi-speaking region of the Deccan in the late thirteenth century, Namdev is remembered as a simple,...
Book cover of The Quotidian Revolution

The Quotidian Revolution

Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India

by Christian Lee Novetzke
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in...
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