Bringing the sacred down to earth: adventures in comparative religion
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 -- Maki...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
c2012
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In: | Year: 2012 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hinduism
/ Dalit theology
/ Christianity
/ Liberation theology
/ Simile
B Western world / Rajneesh Movement |
Further subjects: | B
Religions
Relations
B Religion |
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Summary: | 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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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index |
ISBN: | 0199860327 |