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Winged faith : rethinking globalization and religious pluralism through the Sathya Sai movement
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Winged faith : rethinking globalization and religious pluralism through the Sathya Sai movement

Author: Tulasi Srinivas
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Sathya Sai Baba
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tulasi Srinivas
ISBN: 9780231149327 0231149328 9780231149334 0231149336 9780231520522 0231520522
OCLC Number: 458890808
Description: xii, 430 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction: Toward Cultural Understanding 1. Becoming God: The Story of Sathya Sai Baba 2. Deus Loci: Economies of Faith, Sacred Travel, and the Building of a Moral Architecture 3. Illusion, Play, and Work in a Moral Community: Divine Darshan and the Practices of Transnational Devotion 4. Renegotiating the Body: Muscular Morality, Truancy, and the Satisfaction of Desire 5. Secrecy, Ambiguity, Truth, and Power: The Global Sai Organization and the Anti-Sai Network 6. Out of God's Hands: Reframing Material Worlds In Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Cultural Translation and Engaged Cosmopolitanism Appendix Notes References Index
Responsibility: Tulasi Srinivas.

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A welcome addition to our catalog of religious movements and a timely reminder that circulation does not flow in only one direction -- and never will again. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Read more...

 
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