Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint (eBook, PDF)

Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence
Redaktion: Srinivas, Smriti; Roberts, Allen; Jeychandran, Neelima

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.1918), who has a vast following in postcolonial South Asia and an ever-growing global diaspora, contributing to South Asia / Anthropology / Religion / Global / Urban / Indian Ocean / Inter-Asian Studies / Visual/Media Studies and Cultural Geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000604030
• Artikelnr.: 65739639

Autorenporträt

Smriti Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. Neelima Jeychandran is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Allen F. Roberts is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Baba's Always-Present Presence; Chapter 1: Engaging
Universalism: Sai Baba's Predecessors and Contemporaries; Chapter 2:
Hagiographic Connections between Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Sai Baba:
Venkusha, Venkavadhuta, and the Integrative Icon of Dattatreya; Interleaf
A: Shirdi Sai Baba's Lamp-Lighting Miracle in Text and Film; Chapter
3: From Sai Baba of Shirdi to Shirdi of Sai Baba: The Making of a
Contemporary Pilgrim-Center; Chapter 4: Routes and Repositories: Shirdi Sai
Baba's Urban Presence; Interleaf B: "This Is My Shirdi:" Wayside Shrines
and Sai Baba's Popular Omnipresence; Chapter 5: Kolis of Mumbai and Shirdi
Sai Baba; Chapter 6: "Saint Above (Beyond) Religion:" Re-imaging Shirdi Sai
in Chennai and Singapore; Interleaf C: Sai Baba, Ghana, and Oceanic
Spiritual Crossovers; Chapter 7: Baba's Guiding Hand: Artists and
Acheiropoiesis; Interleaf D: India Spirits, Hounkpode Baba, and Powers of
the Sea in the Republic of Bénin; Chapter 8: A Sheltering Gaze: Darshan
with Baba, Baraka from Bamba