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.