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Veröffentlichung:	Juni 2010
Genre:	Soziologie
ISBN:	9780231149327
EAN-Code:	9780231149327
Verlag:	Columbia University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 0 mm
Gewicht:	697 gr
Seiten:	448
Illustration:	18 illlus.
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The Sathya Sai Baba global civil religious movement was founded in the 1960s by a charismatic Indian guru, Sathya Sai Baba. Based on devotion to Sathya Sai Baba, the movement claims approximately ten million members and eleven thousand devotional centers worldwide and pursues the universal values of truth, righteousness, peace, love, and nonviolence. Reflecting both Hindu and Muslim religious practices as well as Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian influences, Sathya Sai not only attracts devotees from a number of different backgrounds but also moves easily within new worlds, undergoing a kind of "cultural translation" as it lands in new settings. Through an analysis of Sathya Sai's fascinating migration, Winged Faith investigates the culturally embedded concepts that "take wing" as the movement quite literally moves from one location to another. Focusing on the problems of relationality and pluralism that seem endemic to processes of globalization, Winged Faith questions narratives of self and being; circuits of sacred mobility, postmodern religious space, and the politics of nostalgic affect; sacred spectating and illusion; moral stakeholding and the problems of community building; embodiment and the translation of embedded bodily practices; and the global consumption of sacred objects along with the rituals and spaces that culturally encode valorization. A thrilling study of a transcultural, transurban phenomenon, Winged Faith introduces new methods for discussing and interpreting religious practice.