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Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth : adventures in comparative religion / Corinne G. Dempsey.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199860326
  • 9780199860333
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.5 23 DEM
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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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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Open Shelf Books Bishop Bukenya Library Open Access / General collection 201.5 DEM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 147076

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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