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O’Connell, Joseph T. and Rembert Lutjeharms. eds. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism in Bengal: Social Impact and Historical Implications. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
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Accardi, Dean. “Orientalism and the Invention of Kashmiri Religion(S).” International Journal of Hindu Studies 22, no. 3 (2018): 411-430.
Davis, Richard H., “Bhakti in the Classroom: What Do American Students Hear?” In Bhakti and Power: Social Location and Religious Affect in India’s Religion of the Heart. Eds. Christian Lee Novetzke, et al.,Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.
Ashlee Norene Andrews, “‘Gopāl is my Baby’: Vulnerable Deities and Maternal Love at Bengali Home Shrines,” Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Aug 2019, 224–241.
Gupta, Ravi M., and Kenneth Russell Valpey. eds. The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Selected Translations. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Ben-Herut, Gil. Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada According to Harihara’s Ragaḷegaḷu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Karen Pechilis, “Bhakti’s Visualities of Connection in the Arts Today,” Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Aug 2019, 142–167.
Ben-Herut, Gil, Jon Keune, and Anne E. Monius, eds. Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders and Interlopers. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Chakravarti, Ananya. “Between Bhakti and Pietà: Untangling Emotion in Marāṭhī Christian Poetry.” History of Religions 56, no. 4 (2017): 365-387.
Fárek, Martin. “Were Shramana and Bhakti Movements against the Caste System?”. In Western Foundations of the Caste System, Eds. Martin Fárek, et al., 127-172. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, “Two Bhaktas, One District: Revisioning Hagiography and Imagery in Telugu South India,” Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Aug 2019, 168–191.
Llewellyn, J. E. “Saints, Hagiographers, and Religious Experience: The Case of Tukaram and Mahipati.” Religions 10, no. 2 (2019): 110.
Hawley, John Stratton. “Can There Be a Vaishnava Kabir?”. Studies in History 32, no. 2 (2016): 147-161.
Burchett, Patton. A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Amy-Ruth Holt, “Symbols of Political Participation: Jayalalitha’s Fan Imagery in Tamil Nadu,” Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Aug 2019, 242–269.
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti. “Kṣētrayya: The Making of a Telugu Poet.” Indian Economic & Social History Review 56, no. 3 (July 2019): 253–82.
Amy-Ruth Holt, Karen Pechilis, “Contemporary Images of Hindu Bhakti: Identity and Visuality,” Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, August 2019, 129–141.
Sinha, Jayita. “Bahinabai and the Devoted Wife: To Affirm Is to Question.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39, no. 1 (2016): 1-13.
Barua, Ankur. “The Devotional Metaphysics of Śaṅkaradeva (1449–1568): The Advaitic Brahman as the Beloved Friend.” Journal of Hindu Studies 10, no. 3 (2017): 301-327.
Francis, Emmanuel, and Charlotte Schmid, eds. The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti. Pondichéry: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2016.
Pechilis, Karen. “Bhakti and Tantra Intertwined: The Explorations of the Tamil Poetess Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār.” International Journal of Dharma Studies 4, no. 1 (2016): 1-10.
Keune, Jon. “Pedagogical Otherness: The Use of Muslims and Untouchables in Some Hindu Devotional Literature.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84 (2016): 727 – 749.
Morse, Jeremy G. “Devotion According to the Rules: Guru-Bhakti in the Texts and Practices of the Datta Sampradāya.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2017.
Cynthia Packert, “From Gujarat to the Globe: ‘Bhakti Visuality’ and Identity in BAPS Svāminārāyaṇ Hinduism,” Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Aug 2019, 192–223.
Lutjeharms, Rembert. ed. A Vaisnava Poet in Early Modern Bengal: Kavikarnapura’s Splendour of Speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Hawley, John Stratton, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Swapna Sharma, eds. Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.