{"product_id":"devotional-visualities-karen-pechilis-9781350214224","title":"Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis open access book is the first to focus on material visualities of \u003ci\u003ebhakti\u003c\/i\u003e imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion in society in new and often unexpected ways. Communities of interpreters of \u003ci\u003ebhakti\u003c\/i\u003e images discussed in this book include not only a number of distinctive Hindu \u003ci\u003ebhakti\u003c\/i\u003e groups, but also artisans, diaspora women, South Asian Sufis, businessmen, dancers, and filmmakers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book's identification of devotional practices of looking, such as materializing memory, mirroring and immaterializing portraits, and shaping the return look, connect material and visual cultures as well as illustrate modes of established and experimental image usage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBhakti \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most-studied aspects of Indic devotionalism on account of its expression through emotive poetry, song, and vivid hagiographies of saints. The diverse devotional visualities analyzed in this book meaningfully circulate \u003ci\u003ebhakti \u003c\/i\u003eimages in past and present, generating their renewed relationship to contemporary concerns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Patrice M. and John F. Kelly Fellowship in Arts \u0026amp; Letters at\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrew University, USA.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Pechilis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350214221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350214224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Karen Pechilis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48484964892927,"sku":"9781350214224","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e61cfde3-0237-4b10-8626-6e2896d86dc5.jpg?v=1778047009","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/devotional-visualities-karen-pechilis-9781350214224","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}