Praises to a Formless God

David N. Lorenzen is a Professor at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. He is the author of Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai: With a Translation of the Kabir Parachai Prepared in Collaboration with Jagdish Kumar and Uma Thukral and with an Edition of the Niranjani Panthi Recension of this Work and the editor of Bhakti Religion in North India: Community Identity and Political Action, both published by SUNY Press.

• A Note on TransliterationPrefaceIntroduction I. The Demon Prahlad 1. Prahlad the Pious Demon 2. Jan Gopal's The Deeds of Prahlad Translation, with the collaboration of Shukdeo SinghCritical edition II. Kabir and Friends 3. Singing about Saints 4. Sain's The Kabir-Raidas Debate Translation, with the collaboration of Uma ThukralCritical editionManuscript A 5. Kabir's Most Popular Songs 6. Rituals of the Kabir Panth EpilogueA Glossary of DevoteesNotesBibliographyIndex

"Finally a scholar of proven erudition in Hindi texts has brought to the English-speaking world a powerful and pleasing introduction to the radical spirituality of medieval Hinduism. With fresh and interesting translations, Lorenzen has breathed new life into that acerbic and striking saint, Kabir, and shown why his nirguna school of popular Hinduism continues to be appealing to the great masses of Hindus today—its message of spiritual awakening and social justice moving especially those from the lowest strata of Hindu society." — Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California—Santa Barbara