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

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

Srinivas, Tulasi

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Religion General General SociologyHinduism

ISBN10: 0231149328
ISBN13: 9780231149327
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jun 10 2010
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 in an alternate understanding of difference and contestation. It considers how acts of sacred spectating and illusion, moral stakeholding and the problems of community are debated and experienced. A thrilling study of a transcultural and transurban phenomenon that questions narratives of self and being, circuits of sacred mobility, and the politics of affect, Winged Faith suggests new methods for discussing religion in a globalizing world and introduces readers to an easily critiqued yet not fully understood community.

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