{"product_id":"shared-devotion-shared-food-jon-keune-9780197574836","title":"Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India","description":"When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, Jon Keune argues that, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eShared Devotion, Shared Food \u003c\/em\u003eexplores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, \u003cem\u003eShared Devotion, Shared Food\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Keune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197574831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197574836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Jon Keune","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944493121791,"sku":"9780197574836","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a802ba57-6570-4e36-9256-abe66b974c22.jpg?v=1681503819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shared-devotion-shared-food-jon-keune-9780197574836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}