02850nam 2200529Ia 450 991080782790332120240417033255.00-7914-7739-81-4356-9459-7(CKB)1000000000705929(SSID)ssj0000203412(PQKBManifestationID)11168528(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203412(PQKBWorkID)10259613(PQKB)11394994(MiAaPQ)EBC3407358(Au-PeEL)EBL3407358(CaPaEBR)ebr10575784(OCoLC)923404139(EXLCZ)99100000000070592920080115d2008 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMiracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions[electronic resource] /edited by Corinne G. Dempsey and Selva J. RajAlbany State University of New York Pressc2008xiii, 218 p. illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7633-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.MiraclesSouth AsiaReligionMiracles.202/.117Dempsey Corinne G1130031Raj Selva J1593601MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807827903321Miracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions4050164UNINA