Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions 1st Edition by Selva J Raj, Corinne G Dempsey ISBN 0791476340 978-0791476345 by Corinne G. Dempsey, Selva J. Raj 0791476332, 9780791476338 instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 0791476340

ISBN 13: 978-0791476345 

Author: Selva J. Raj, Corinne G. Dempsey

Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.

Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native.

"This topic and the various ancillary questions raised by the contributors lie at the heart of understanding religiosity. This is an excellent, even courageous, compilation, and the sheer magnitude of so many different types of miraculous stories presented within a sensitive and astute framework makes this an outstanding contribution to the study of religion." - Constantina Rhodes Bailly, author of Shaiva Devotional Songs of Kashmir: A Translation and Study of Utpaladeva's Shivastotravali

Contributors include Chad M. Bauman, Corinne G. Dempsey, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Ann Grodzins Gold, Sunil Goonasekera, William P. Harman, Selva J. Raj, Robin Rinehart, and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt.

Corinne G. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point and the author of Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India and The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple and coeditor (with Selva J. Raj) of Popular Christianity in India: Riting between the Lines, also published by SUNY Press. Selva J. Raj (1952–2008) was Chair and Stanley S. Kresge Professor of Religious Studies at Albion College and coeditor (with William P. Harman) of Dealing with Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of contents:

• List of Illustrations

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction: Divine Proof or Tenacious Embarrassment? The Wonders of the Modern Miraculous

Part I. Miracles and Modern Ambivalence

• The Neo-Vedanta Miracle

• Miraculous Health and Medical Itineration among Satnamis and Christians in Late Colonial Chhattisgarh

• Kataragama and the Tsunami: The Adbhuta, Ascarya, and the Pratiharya

Part II. Making and Breaking Shrine Reputations

• Showing Miracles in Rajasthan: Proof and Grace

• A Miracle (or Two) in Tiruchirapalli

• The Science of the Miraculous at an Upstate New York Temple

Part III. Managing the Establishment: Miracles and Popular Expression

• An Ethnographic Encounter with the Wondrous in a South Indian Catholic Shrine

• The “Deep Secret” and Dangers of Karamat: Miraculous Acts, Revelation, and Secrecy in a South Indian Sufi Tradition

• Media of Miracles, Miracle of Media: Clairvoyants and Commercials on South Asian Television in the Diaspora

• Contributors

• Index

• Back Matter

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