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LEADER: 02139cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2008000123
003 DLC
005 20090829095419.0
008 080115s2008 nyua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008000123
020 $a9780791476338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0791476332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn191009598
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050 00 $aBL1055$b.M57 2008
082 00 $a202/.117$222
245 00 $aMiracle as modern conundrum in South Asian religious traditions /$cedited by Corinne G. Dempsey and Selva J. Raj.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2008.
300 $axiii, 218 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
651 0 $aSouth Asia$xReligion.
650 0 $aMiracles.
700 1 $aDempsey, Corinne G.
700 1 $aRaj, Selva J.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip088/2008000123.html