Bringing the sacred down to earth adventures in comparative religion

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dempsey, Corinne G. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press 2012
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conté: 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