Bringing the sacred down to earth : [manuscript] : adventures in comparative religion / by Corinne G. Dempsey.

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Dempsey, Corinne G

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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780199860326 (pbk)
0199860327
9780199860333
0199860335

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DDC classification:

201/.5 22

LOC classification:

BL80.3 .D46 2012

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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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Books	Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology Library Available at Circulation Section	201.5 Dem 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	19051

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.

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