Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence

ISBN-13: 9781032135694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Smriti Srinivas; Neelima Jeychandran; Allen Roberts

Opis

This book focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.1918), who has a vast following in postcolonial South Asia and an ever-growing global diaspora, contributing to South Asia / Anthropology / Religion / Global / Urban / Indian Ocean / Inter-Asian Studies / Visual/Media Studies and Cultural Geography.

Spis treści

Introduction: Baba’s Always-Present Presence; Chapter 1: Engaging Universalism: Sai Baba’s Predecessors and Contemporaries; Chapter 2: Hagiographic Connections between Shirdi Sai Baba and Sathya Sai Baba: Venkusha, Venkavadhuta, and the Integrative Icon of Dattatreya; Interleaf A: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Lamp-Lighting Miracle in Text and Film; Chapter 3: From Sai Baba of Shirdi to Shirdi of Sai Baba: The Making of a Contemporary Pilgrim-Center; Chapter 4: Routes and Repositories: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Urban Presence; Interleaf B: "This Is My Shirdi:" Wayside Shrines and Sai Baba’s Popular Omnipresence; Chapter 5: Kolis of Mumbai and Shirdi Sai Baba; Chapter 6: "Saint Above (Beyond) Religion:" Re-imaging Shirdi Sai in Chennai and Singapore; Interleaf C: Sai Baba, Ghana, and Oceanic Spiritual Crossovers; Chapter 7: Baba’s Guiding Hand: Artists and Acheiropoiesis; Interleaf D: India Spirits, Hounkpode Baba, and Powers of the Sea in the Republic of Bénin; Chapter 8: A Sheltering Gaze: Darshan with Baba, Baraka from Bamba