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Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion /
Corinne Dempsey offers a study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and expression to the general populace.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.