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In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement Hardcover - 2008

by Smriti Srinivas


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The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with various Sufi and devotional genealogies. The movement, thus, has a oerootsa in Shirdi Sai Baba but as it globalizes, it has developed conjunctions with other religious traditions, New Religious movements, and New Age ideas. This book offers an account of the Sai Baba movement as a pathway for charting the varied cartographies, sensory formations, and cultural memories implicated in urbanization and globalization. It traverses the terrain between social theories for the study of religion and cities ---themselves a product of modernity---and the radical, creative, and unexpected modernity of contemporary religious movements. It is based on ethnographic research carried out in India, Kenya, and the US.

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  • Title In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement
  • Author Smriti Srinivas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 403
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2008-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004165434 / 9004165436
  • Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.61 x 6.57 x 1.05 in (24.41 x 16.69 x 2.67 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007052482
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.55

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 21

About the author

Smriti Srinivas, Ph.D. in Sociology (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University), is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh (1998), and Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (2001). Her research interests are urban cultures, memory, cultures of the body/performance, and religion.
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