Miracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions
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Author
Contributions
- Dempsey, Corinne G. - Contributor
- Raj, Selva J. - Contributor
Publication
2009 - State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16426303M
- ISBN-139780791476338
- OCLC Control Number191009598
- Library of Congress Control Number2008000123
- Goodreads5713789
Classifications
- DDC202/.117
- LCCBL1055 .M57 2009
Description
"Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity - this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves, but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native."--Jacket.
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