Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions

Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions

Raj, Selva J.
Dempsey, Corinne G.

Paperback

Comparative ReligionAnthropologyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0791476340
ISBN13: 9780791476345
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 1 2009
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

Also in

General Eastern Religions

View All