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By Karen Pechilis (editor) and Selva J. Raj (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415448512 | Routledge, January 11, 2013, cover price $135.00

Paperback:

9780415448529 | Routledge, January 9, 2013, cover price $44.95

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Product 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...read more
By Selva J. Raj (editor)

Hardcover:

9780791476338 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 6, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake.

Paperback:

9780791476345 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake.

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Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of lay religious activity, vow rituals are adopted by Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs who wish to commit themselves to ritually enacted relationships with sacred figures in order to gain earthly boons and spiritual merit. The contributors to this volume offer a fascinating look at the varieties and complexities of vows and also focus on a unique characteristic of this vow-taking culture, that of resorting to deities and shrines of other religions in defiance of institutional directives and religious boundaries. Richly illustrated, the book explores the creativity of South Asian devotees and their deeply felt convictions that what they require, they can achieve faithfully--and independently--by dealing directly with deities.
By William P. Harman (editor) and Selva J. Raj (editor)

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9780791467077 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 17, 2006, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia.

Paperback:

9780791467084 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $33.95

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Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an important balance to currently available, typically theological, studies. Drawing from many disciplines, this volume unearths the multifaceted terrain of festivals, rituals, saints, miracle workers, missionaries, and visionaries in Christian India, providing a wonderful glimpse of its richness and complexities. The contributors reveal the ways in which local Christian traditions deftly challenge assumed divisions and power imbalances between East and West, Hindu and Christian, foreign and indigenous, and elite and local expressions. Whether forging complicated religious, caste, and national identities, employing religious hybridity to promote well-being, or asserting autonomy within oppressive social and religious structures, local Christianity provides a crucial means for its participants to manage their earthly needs and desires. (view table of contents)
By Corinne G. Dempsey (editor) and Selva J. Raj (editor)

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9780791455197 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an important balance to currently available, typically theological, studies.

Paperback:

9780791455203 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $33.95

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