This book explores the connections between bhakti and embodiment and is
concerned more specifically with constructions of divine bodies and devotional
bodies in Krishna bhakti traditions. Grounding general reflections on bhakti and
embodiment in an analysis of two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, one of the
most important scriptures in the Vaisnava bhakti canon, and the Gaudiya Vaisnava
tradition, an important bhakti movement inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya
in the sixteenth century that invokes the canonical authority of the Bhagavata
Purana as the basis for its own distinctive teachings.