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In the presence of Sai Baba : body, city, and memory in a global religious movement /

"The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with various...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Srinivas, Smriti
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Studies in the history of religions ; 118.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The mendicant of Shirdi
  • The arrival of the Avatar
  • The sense of the presence
  • Healing, service, and character
  • The ideal polis
  • Producing space in Bangalore
  • Somatic regimes of citizenship in Nairobi
  • Sites of sociality in Atlanta.