During the years 800 to 1500, there was an increase in the diversity of people participating in shaping the cultural history of Hinduism. Key topics explored in this volume on the post-classical age include the creation of distinctive authoritative texts in Sanskrit and vernacular languages; the renewed emphasis on the body in Tantra and bhakti; new urban forms of socialization; the flourishing of devotional Hinduism; discursive definitions of power and their intersecting modes of conceiving sovereignty on multiple social levels; the development of large-scale imperial and cosmological temples; the emergence of renowned and lasting philosophical lineages; and the intercultural vibrancy of a burgeoning transregional trade.

A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Post-Classical Age is part of a six-volume set providing an authoritative survey of one of the world's oldest religious traditions in its social and cultural contexts, from ancient times to the present. Each volume includes essays on sources of authority; body and mind; social organization and everyday norms; identity, difference, and dialogue; power and politics; visual culture; lineages and emerging exemplars and movements; and global context.

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