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Author: Smriti Srinivas
ISBN: 9789004165434

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Información de la editorial

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripción de contraportada

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 genealogies. The movement, thus, has a oerootsa 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.

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Título In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement
Autor Smriti Srinivas
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Páginas 403
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Brill
Fecha de publicación 2008-01
Ilustrado Sí
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9789004165434 / 9004165436
Peso 1.82 libras (0.83 kg)
Dimensiones 9.61 x 6.57 x 1.05 pulgadas (24.41 x 16.69 x 2.67 cm)
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2007052482
Dewey Decimal Code 294.55

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Acerca del autor

Smriti Srinivas, Ph.D. in Sociology (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University), is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh (1998), and Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (2001). Her research interests are urban cultures, memory, cultures of the body/performance, and religion.

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