Bringing the sacred down to earth : [manuscript] : adventures in comparative religion /
Dempsey, Corinne G.
Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion / [manuscript] : by Corinne G. Dempsey. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.
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.
9780199860326 (pbk) 0199860327 9780199860333 0199860335
2011016109
015951319 Uk
Religion.
Religions--Relations.
BL80.3 / .D46 2012
201/.5
Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion / [manuscript] : by Corinne G. Dempsey. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.
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.
9780199860326 (pbk) 0199860327 9780199860333 0199860335
2011016109
015951319 Uk
Religion.
Religions--Relations.
BL80.3 / .D46 2012
201/.5