TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dempsey,Corinne G.
TI  - Bringing the sacred down to earth: adventures in comparative religion 
SN  - 9780199860326
AV  - BL80.3 .D46 2012eb
U1  - 291 D389B 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religions
KW  - Relations
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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