03136nam 2200601 a 450 991079212800332120200520144314.01-283-06068-X978661306068690-474-3300-910.1163/ej.9789004165434.i-403(CKB)2610000000001618(SSID)ssj0000470260(PQKBManifestationID)11272246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470260(PQKBWorkID)10410535(PQKB)11733082(MiAaPQ)EBC682380(OCoLC)173808150(OCoLC)237808509(nllekb)BRILL9789047433002(Au-PeEL)EBL682380(CaPaEBR)ebr10461399(CaONFJC)MIL306068(OCoLC)719377459(PPN)174544723(EXLCZ)99261000000000161820080107d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIn the presence of Sai Baba[electronic resource] body, city, and memory in a global religious movement /by Smriti SrinivasLeiden ;Boston Brill2008xix, 403 p. ill., mapsNumen book series : studies in the history of religions,0169-8834 ;v. 118Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph90-04-16543-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-371) and index.The mendicant of Shirdi -- The arrival of the Avatar -- The sense of the presence -- Healing, service, and character -- The ideal polis -- Producing space in Bangalore -- Somatic regimes of citizenship in Nairobi -- Sites of sociality in Atlanta.The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with various Sufi and devotional genealogies. The movement, thus, has “roots” in Shirdi Sai Baba but as it globalizes, it has developed conjunctions with other religious traditions, New Religious movements, and New Age ideas. This book offers an account of the Sai Baba movement as a pathway for charting the varied cartographies, sensory formations, and cultural memories implicated in urbanization and globalization. It traverses the terrain between social theories for the study of religion and cities ---themselves a product of modernity---and the radical, creative, and unexpected modernity of contemporary religious movements. It is based on ethnographic research carried out in India, Kenya, and the US.Studies in the history of religions ;118.HinduismSocial aspectsHinduismSocial aspects.294.5/5Srinivas Smriti440397MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792128003321In the presence of Sai Baba3756034UNINA