TY  - BOOK
AU  - Srinivas,Tulasi
TI  - Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement 
SN  - 9780231520522
AV  - BP605.S14 S75 2010eb
U1  - 294.5092 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, Chichester
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Sathya Sai Baba,
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religious pluralism
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - Cults
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translation; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Toward Cultural Understanding; 1. Becoming God: The Story of Sathya Sai Baba; 2. Deus Loci: Economies of Faith, Sacred Travel, and the Building of a Moral Architecture; 3. Illusion, Play, and Work in a Moral Community: Divine Darshan and the Practices of Transnational Devotion; 4. Renegotiating the Body: Muscular Morality, Truancy, and the Satisfaction of Desire; 5. Secrecy, Ambiguity, Truth, and Power: The Global Sai Organization and the Anti-Sai Network; 6. Out of God's Hands: Reframing Material WorldsIn Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Cultural Translation and Engaged Cosmopolitanism; Appendix; Notes; References; Index
N2  - The Sathya Sai global civil religious movement incorporates Hindu and Muslim practices, Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian influences, and ""New Age""--Style rituals and beliefs. Shri Sathya Sai Baba, its charismatic and controversial leader, attracts several million adherents from various national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. In a dynamic account of the Sathya Sai movement's explosive growth, Winged Faith argues for a rethinking of globalization and the politics of identity in a religiously plural world. This study considers a new kind of cosmopolitanism located
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