Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement

Tulasi Srinivas

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Paper, 448 pages, 18 illlus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14933-4
$29.50 / £20.50

June, 2010
Cloth, 448 pages, 18 illlus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14932-7
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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 Worlds

In Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Cultural Translation and Engaged Cosmopolitanism

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian Studies
• Comparative Religion
• South Asian Studies

About the Author

Tulasi Srinivas is assistant professor of anthropology at Emerson College, specializing in South Asia, with a focus on issues of globalization, religion, and identity.

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