David Haberman's Acting as a Way of Salvation, Oxford University Press, 1988, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that it is a detailed academic treatment of raganuga bhakti sadhana, the devotional visualisation practice within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, drawing on the tradition's own textual sources. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly monograph on a specialist devotional practice: it presents one researcher's reading of texts that practitioners themselves may understand somewhat differently.
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Reliability tier 1: a detailed academic monograph from Oxford University Press, drawing on the tradition's own textual sources, one researcher's reading of a specialist devotional practice. NotesScholarly study of raganuga bhakti sadhana practice, Oxford University Press, 1988.
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AuthorDavid L. Haberman
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year1988
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Gaudiya Vaishnavism directly: "visualisation practice within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, drawing on the tradition's own textual sources."
Source Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Raganuga Bhakti SadhanaDavid L. Haberman
This source names Vaishnavism directly: "visualisation practice within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, drawing on the tradition's own textual sources."
Source Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Raganuga Bhakti SadhanaDavid L. Haberman
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Beliefs & Restrictions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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