MARC Record from Library of Congress

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003 DLC
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008 080115s2009 nyu s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008000123
020 $a9780791476338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $aaz-----
050 04 $aBL1055$b.M57 2009
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 $aAlbany, NY :$bState University of New York Press,$c2009.
263 $a0901
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes 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 -- Allopathic miracles and medical itineration among Satnamis and Christians in late colonial Chhattisgarh / Chad Bauman -- Kataragama and the Tsunami : the Adbhuta, Ascarya and Pratiharya / Sunil Goonasekara -- Making and breaking shrine reputations -- Showing miracles in Rajasthan : proof and grace / Ann Grodzins Gold -- A miracle (or two) in Tiruchi / 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 of karamat : miraculous acts, revelation and secrecy in a South Indian Sufi tradition / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Media of miracles, miracles 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.