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Miracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions /
"Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity - this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Divine proof or tenacious embarrassment? the wonders of the modern miraculous / Corinne G. Dempsey
- Miracles and modern ambivalence
- The neo-vedanta miracle / Robin Rinehart
- Miraculous health and medical itineration among Satnamis and Christians in late colonial Chhattisgarh / Chad M. Bauman
- Kataragama and the Tsunami : the Adbhuta, Ascarya, and the Pratiharya / Sunil Goonasekara
- Making and breaking shrine reputations
- Showing miracles in Rajasthan : proof and grace / Ann Grodzins Gold
- A miracle (or two) in Tiruchipalli / William P. Harman
- The science of the miraculous at an upstate New York Hindu temple / Corinne G. Dempsey
- Managing the establishment : miracles and popular expression
- An ethnographic encounter with the wondrous in a South Indian Catholic shrine / Selva J. Raj
- The 'deep secret' and dangers of karamat : miraculous acts, revelation, and secrecy in a South Indian Sufi tradition / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
- Media of miracles, miracle of media : clairvoyants and commercials on South Asian TV networks in the diaspora / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt.