By Tulasi Srinivas
The Sathya Sai international civil non secular flow comprises Hindu and Muslim practices, Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian affects, and "New Age"-style rituals and ideology. Shri Sathya Sai Baba, its charismatic and debatable chief, draws a number of million adherents from numerous nationwide, ethnic, and spiritual backgrounds. In a dynamic account of the Sathya Sai movement's explosive development, Winged Faith argues for a rethinking of globalization and the politics of identification in a religiously plural world.
This examine considers a brand new form of cosmopolitanism positioned in an alternative realizing of distinction and contestation. It considers how acts of "sacred spectating" and phantasm, "moral stakeholding" and the issues of group are debated and skilled. an exhilarating examine of a transcultural and transurban phenomenon that questions narratives of self and being, circuits of sacred mobility, and the politics of have an effect on, Winged Faith indicates new equipment for discussing faith in a globalizing global and introduces readers to an simply critiqued but no longer totally understood community.
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