Bhakti

This thesis prioritizes the use of Sanskrit primary texts and adopts a philological and comparative philosophical methodology. It investigates the relationship between the enlightened mental state which occurs penultimately to liberation in relationship to the experience of libe…

In this dissertation, I primarily focus on the construction of the concept of anticipatory community and the theopoetic practice of anticipation as a unique, relevant, and urgently necessary contribution to the field of ecotheology and the practice of community in general in our…

This dissertation investigates the close connection between poetry and prayer in South Asia by studying the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise ( stotras) in Kashmir. It offers a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and it charts the course…