{"product_id":"9780415687515","title":"Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology : A History of Reception in Premodern India (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of literary culture, and replaced it with another, as a work of remembered tradition.This book examines Ramayana commentaries, poetic retellings, and praise-poems produced by intellectuals within the Srivaisnava order of South India from 1250 to 1600 and shows how these intellectuals reconceptualized Rama’s story through the lens of their devotional metaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49113143836899,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":233.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780415687515-1.jpg?v=1788339369","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780415687515","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}