Bringing the sacred down to earth
Dempsey, Corinne G.
Bringing the sacred down to earth adventures in comparative religion / [electronic resource] : Corinne G. Dempsey. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - (xi, 199 p.) : 20 cm
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.
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.
9780199860326 9780199860333
Religion.
Religions--Relations.
BL80.3 / .D46 2012eb
291 D389B
Bringing the sacred down to earth adventures in comparative religion / [electronic resource] : Corinne G. Dempsey. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - (xi, 199 p.) : 20 cm
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.
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.
9780199860326 9780199860333
Religion.
Religions--Relations.
BL80.3 / .D46 2012eb
291 D389B