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" Miracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions "
/ edited by Corinne G. Dempsey and Selva J. Raj
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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710
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b10352
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English
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Dempsey, Corinne G
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Miracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions/ edited by Corinne G. Dempsey and Selva J. Raj
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| Publication Statement
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Albany: State University of New York Press,, c2008.
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xiii, 218 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
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9780791476338(hardcover : alk.paper)
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Divine proof or tenacious embarrassment? the wonders of the modern miraculous / Corinne G. Dempsey -- Miracles and modern ambivalence -- The neo-vedanta miracle / Robin Rinehart -- Miraculous health and medical itineration among Satnamis and Christians in late colonial Chhattisgarh / Chad M. Bauman -- Kataragama and the Tsunami : the Adbhuta, Ascarya, and the Pratiharya / Sunil Goonasekara -- Making and breaking shrine reputations -- Showing miracles in Rajasthan : proof and grace / Ann Grodzins Gold -- A miracle (or two) in Tiruchipalli / William P. Harman -- The science of the miraculous at an upstate New York Hindu temple / Corinne G. Dempsey -- Managing the establishment : miracles and popular expression -- An ethnographic encounter with the wondrous in a South Indian Catholic shrine / Selva J. Raj -- The 'deep secret' and dangers of karamat : miraculous acts, revelation, and secrecy in a South Indian Sufi tradition / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Media of miracles, miracle of media : clairvoyants and commercials on South Asian TV networks in the diaspora / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt.
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South AsiaReligion
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Miracles
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202.117
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BL1055.M57 2008
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Raj, Selva J
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