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

Workshop is held in English and is created in cooperation with Gerda Henkel Stiftung

09:30 - 09:40 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop

09:40 - 10:00 Introductory Remarks by Prof. Dr. Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Heidelberg University)

10:00 - 11:00 Moments and Voices of Bhakti in Odisha: Confirmation, Contestation and Resistance, Prof. Pralay Kanungo (University of Leiden)

11:00 - 12:00 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)

12:00 - 13:00 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)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00 Ganapati Maharaj and the Ajāt Sampradāy: Travails of an Anti-Caste Bhakti Tradition in 20th century Vidarbha, Prof. Jon Keune (Michigan State University)

15:00 - 16:00 From Critical to Scriptural History: Bhaktivinod's Second Naiveté, Dr. Lucian Wong (University of Oxford)

Chair: Prof. Michael Bergunder (Heidelberg University)

16:00 - 16:15 Concluding Remarks