RLG205H5 Lecture 6: RLG205 - Lecture 6
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Lecture 5: foundations of vaisnavism: bhakti, puja, and vedanta. Visnu or siva: fuller says, for these communities, the deity is their god . Uses the word polytheism (worship of many gods) He counterpoising popular practice against a certain kind of theology (siva and vishnu) He has a sociological analysis between local worship of deities. Last two visistadviata and dvaita are the most important of the. Keep in mind the orthodox theology & different types of practices. Visnupuran much older text- has many stories of different forms of visnu, the incarnations of visnu the bhagavad-gita is primarily a vaisna text the main grouping of text are called the : pancaratsa (7th century) & Vaikharasa (earlier- is more vedic: have stories, various ideas upanisads, not the vedic. Srivasihnava are vedics- but also claim that the main part of the book is the. Agamyprimaya early form of srivasihnava text. Brahmans who worship vishnu are actually brahmans.
