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Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion / Corinne G. Dempsey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199860340
  • 0199860343
  • 0199919593
  • 9780199919598
  • 1283427648
  • 9781283427647
  • 9786613427649
  • 6613427640
  • 0199339724
  • 9780199339723
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bringing the sacred down to earth.DDC classification:
  • 201/.5 22
LOC classification:
  • BL80.3 .D46 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)422189

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Print version record.

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.

English.