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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
State University of New York Press,
2008.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves, but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native."--Jacket. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780791477397 0791477398 9781435694590 1435694597 |