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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Main Author: Dempsey, Corinne G. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press c2012
In:Year: 2012
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hinduism / Dalit theology / Christianity / Liberation theology / Settlement
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index
ISBN:0199860327