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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. Sufism in India - Wikipedia

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    The Bhakti movement was a regional revival of Hinduism linking language, geography, and cultural identities through devotional deity worship. [66] This concept of " Bhakti " appeared in the Bhagavad Gita and the first sects emerged from south India between the 7th and 10th century. [ 66 ]

  4. History of Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    This period saw the emergence of the Bhakti movement. The Bhakti movement was a rapid growth of bhakti beginning in Tamil Nadu in Southern India with the Vaisnava Alvars (3rd to 9th centuries CE) [170] and Saiva Nayanars (4th to 10th centuries CE) [171] who spread bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India by the 12th to 18th centuries CE ...

  5. 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.

  6. Vaishnavism - Wikipedia

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    The Haridasa movement, a bhakti movement originated from Karnataka is a sub-branch of Sadh Vaishnavism. [277] Sadh Vaishnavism worships Vishnu as the highest Hindu deity and regards Madhva , whom they consider to be an incarnation of Vishnu's son, Vayu , as an incarnate saviour. [ 278 ]

  7. Krishnaism - Wikipedia

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    This is the most important period, it was at this time that Krishnaism acquired the form in which its traditions exist to nowadays. The bhakti movement of the high and later Middle Ages Hinduism emerges in the 9th or 10th century, and is based (its Krishnaite form) on the Bhagavata Purana, Narada Bhakti Sutra, and other

  8. Bhakti yoga - Wikipedia

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    The bhakti marga involving these deities grew with the bhakti movement, starting about the mid-1st millennium CE, from Tamil Nadu in South India. The movement was led by the Saiva Nayanars [10] and the Vaisnava Alvars. Their ideas and practices inspired bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India over the 12th-18th century CE.

  9. Vedanta - Wikipedia

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    The Bhakti movement of late medieval Hinduism started in the 7th century, but rapidly expanded after the 12th century. [132] It was supported by the Puranic literature such as the Bhagavata Purana , poetic works, as well as many scholarly bhasyas and samhitas .