| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; volume 118 |
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Studies in the history of religions ; 118.
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| Contents |
The mendicant of Shirdi -- The arrival of the Avatar -- The sense of the presence -- Healing, service, and character -- The ideal polis -- Producing space in Bangalore -- Somatic regimes of citizenship in Nairobi -- Sites of sociality in Atlanta |
| Summary |
"The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with various Sufi and devotional traditions. The movement, thus, has "roots" in Shirdi Sai Baba but as it globalizes, it has developed conjunctions with other religious traditions, New Religious movements, and New Age ideas." "This book offers an account of the Sai Baba movement as a pathway for charting the varied cartographies, sensory formations, and cultural memories implicated in urbanization and globalization. It traverses the terrain between social theories for the study of religion and cities - themselves a product of modernity - and the radical, creative, and unexpected modernity of contemporary religious movements. It is based on ethnographic research carried out in India, Kenya, and the US."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Hinduism Social aspects |
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Sathya Sai Baba 1926- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-371) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sathya Sai Baba, 1926-2011.
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| SUBJECT |
Sathya Sai Baba, 1926-2011 fast |
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Sai Baba von Shirdi 1836-1918 gnd |
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Sathya Sai Baba. idsbb |
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Sathya Sai Baba. idszbz |
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Sathya Sai Baba. swd |
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Sai Baba von Shirdi. swd |
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Sathya-Sai-Organisation. idszbz |
| Subject |
Hinduism -- Social aspects
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
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Hinduism -- Social aspects
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Hinduismus
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Religiöse Bewegung
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Soziales Engagement
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Hinduism -- samhällsaspekter.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007052482 |
| ISBN |
9789047433002 |
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9047433009 |
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128306068X |
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9781283060684 |
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9786613060686 |
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6613060682 |
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