Bringing the sacred down to earth :

Dempsey, Corinne G.

Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion / Corinne G. Dempsey. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

9780199860326 0199860327 9780199860333 0199860335

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Religion.
Religions--Relations.

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