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Bhakti Movement Essay

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Female poet-saints also played a major role in the Bhakti Movement in general. However, many of these women had to struggle for acceptance within the largely patriarchal movement. Only through demonstrations of their absolute devotion to the Divine, their marvelous poetry, and immovable insistence of their spiritual equality with their contemporaries were these women unwillingly accepted within their ranks. Their struggle attests to the strength of patriarchal values within both society and within religious and social movements attempting to pave the way for more democratic entrée to the Divine. The descriptions of Bhakti poetry is grounded in the everyday, recognizable language of ordinary people. Female bhaktas wrote of the obstacles of home, …show more content…

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