Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion / Corinne G. Dempsey.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780199860326
- 0199860327
- 9780199860333
- 0199860335
- 201/.5 22
- BL 80.3 .D46 2012
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PAC UNIVERSITY General Stacks | Non-fiction | BL 80.3 .D46 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 19752 |
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.