Bringing the sacred down to earth : adventures in comparative religion - Dempsey, Corinne G. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2012)
Icelandic and Indian language notes -- Introduction: adventures and misadventures in comparison -- The suffering Indian nun and the wandering (drunken) Irish priest: orientalism and Celticism unplugged -- Arguing equal access to an earthly sacred: Christian and Hindu theologies of liberation -- Making and staking sacred terrain: Rajneeshee and diaspora Hindu settlers and unsettlers -- Embodying the extraordinary in Iceland and India and the difference spirits make -- Postscript: unanticipated adventures in ritualized ethnography.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.
Keywords: Religion; Religions -- Relations