Bringing the sacred down to earth
Subtitle: adventures in comparative religion
By: Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780199860326; 9780199860333
Subjects: Religion; Relations; Religions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Icelandic and Indian language notes; title: Introduction: adventures and misadventures in comparison; title: The suffering Indian nun and the wandering (drunken) Irish priest: orientalism and Celticism unplugged; title: Arguing equal access to an earthly sacred: Christian and Hindu theologies of liberation; title: Making and staking sacred terrain: Rajneeshee and diaspora Hindu settlers and unsettlers; title: Embodying the extraordinary in Iceland and India and the difference spirits make; title: Postscript: unanticipated adventures in ritualized ethnography.