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  2. Bhakti movement - Wikipedia

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    The Bhakti movement in Hinduism refers to ideas and engagement that emerged in the medieval era on love and devotion to religious concepts built around one or more gods and goddesses. The Bhakti movement preached against the caste system and used local languages and so the message reached the masses. One who practices bhakti is called a bhakta ...

  3. Category:Bhakti movement - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Bhakti movement" The following 150 pages are in this category, out of 150 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Bhakti - Wikipedia

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    Bhakti ideas have inspired many popular texts and saint-poets in India. The Bhagavata Purana, for example, is a Krishna-related text associated with the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. [13] Bhakti is also found in other religions practiced in India, [14] [15] [16] and it has influenced interactions between Christianity and Hinduism in the modern era.

  5. Haridasa - Wikipedia

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    While the movement was mainly heralded by the Brahmins, it was a devotional one whose ideals and thoughts pervaded and received noteworthy contributions from all sections of society. [7] The Haridasa movement can be considered as a part of a larger Bhakti movement whose devotional inspiration to the masses lasted over a millennium. The Haridasa ...

  6. Hindu devotional movements - Wikipedia

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    The history of devotional movements is as ancient as that of the worship of the significant deities. While Hinduism is often described as having 30,000 gods in its pantheon, from an anthropological and historical perspective the most significant devotional movements of the past two thousand years have centered on only a few. But together with ...

  7. Hindu denominations - Wikipedia

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    The Bhakti movement was a theistic devotional trend that originated in the seventh-century Tamil south India (now parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala), and spread northwards. [131] It swept over east and north India from the fifteenth-century onwards, reaching its zenith between the 15th and 17th century CE.

  8. Alvars - Wikipedia

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    The poetry of the Alvars echoes bhakti to God through love, and in the ecstasy of such devotions they sang hundreds of songs which embodied both depth of feeling and the felicity of expressions. [5] The collection of their hymns is known as the Naalayira Divya Prabandham .

  9. Category:Hindu movements - Wikipedia

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    Bhakti movement (15 C, 150 P) M. Madhoms in Thrissur (4 P) N. Hindu nationalism (10 C, 53 P) Hindu new religious movements (13 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Hindu ...