Śiva's Saints

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Śiva's Saints is written by Gil Ben-Herut and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190878843 (ISBN 10) and 9780190878849 (ISBN 13).

In Siva's Saints, Gil Ben-Herut challenges common notions about the Virasaiva tradition in its nascent phases. By closely reading the saints' stories in this text, Siva's Saints takes a more nuanced historical view than commonly-held notions about the egalitarian and iconoclastic nature of the early tradition, arguing instead that early bhakti (devotionalism) in the Kannada-speaking region was less-radical and more accommodating toward traditional religious, social, and political institutions than thought of today.