Workshop Revival, Reform or Revolution? The Bhakti Period and its Modern Interpreters

09:30 - 09:40

09:40 - 10:00

Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop

Introductory Remarks by Prof. Dr. Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Heidelberg University)

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:00

12:00 - 13:00

Moments and Voices of Bhakti in Odisha: Confirmation, Contestation and Resistance

• Prof. Pralay Kanungo (University of Leiden)

Toward a Genealogy of Modern Bhakti: Politics, Poetry and Publics in the Writings of Savitribai and Jotirao Phule

• Prof. Christian Lee Novetzke (University of Washington)

Bhakti for/against Politics: Ramdas, the Dasbodh and Hindu Political Theology

• Dr. Alok Oak (Gerda Henkel Foundation  / Heidelberg University)

Chair: Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (Heidelberg University)

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

Ganapati Maharaj and the Ajāt Sampradāy: Travails of an Anti-Caste Bhakti Tradition in 20th century Vidarbha

• Prof. Jon Keune (Michigan State University)

From Critical to Scriptural History: Bhaktivinod's Second Naiveté

• Dr. Lucian Wong (University of Oxford)

Sant Tukaram (1936): Narrative and Visual Elements in the Mise-en-scène of Bhakti

• Ms. Gayatri Chatterjee (Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts)

Chair: Dr. Alok Oak (Heidelberg University)