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Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion / Corinne G. Dempsey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199860326
  • 0199860327
  • 9780199860333
  • 0199860335
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.5 22
LOC classification:
  • BL80.3 .D46 2012
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Contents:
Icelandic and Indian language notes -- Introduction: adventures and misadventures in comparison -- The suffering Indian nun and the wandering (drunken) Irish priest: orientalism and Celticism unplugged -- Arguing equal access to an earthly sacred: Christian and Hindu theologies of liberation -- Making and staking sacred terrain: Rajneeshee and diaspora Hindu settlers and unsettlers -- Embodying the extraordinary in Iceland and India and the difference spirits make -- Postscript: unanticipated adventures in ritualized ethnography.
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Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation BL 80.3.D46 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available T16139W3232

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.

Icelandic and Indian language notes -- Introduction: adventures and misadventures in comparison -- The suffering Indian nun and the wandering (drunken) Irish priest: orientalism and Celticism unplugged -- Arguing equal access to an earthly sacred: Christian and Hindu theologies of liberation -- Making and staking sacred terrain: Rajneeshee and diaspora Hindu settlers and unsettlers -- Embodying the extraordinary in Iceland and India and the difference spirits make -- Postscript: unanticipated adventures in ritualized ethnography.

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