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Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth - Adventures in Comparative Religion (Paperback)
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Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth - Adventures in Comparative Religion (Paperback)
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In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a
comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American
earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official
religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny
sacred access and expression to the general populace, and are
abstracted and disembodied in ways that make them irrelevant to if
not neglectful of earthly realities. Working at cross purposes with
these systems, attending to material needs, conferring sacred
access to a wider public, and imbuing land and bodies with sacred
meaning and power, are religious frameworks featuring folklore
figures, democratizing theologies, newly sanctified land, and
extraordinary human abilities. Some scholars will see Dempsey's
juxtapositions of Hindu and Christian religious dynamics, many of
which exist on opposite sides of the globe, as a leap into a
disciplinary minefield. Many have argued for decades that
comparison is an outmoded, politically troubled approach to the
human sciences. More recently opponents, represented by a growing
number of religion scholars, are ''writing back'' in comparison's
defense, asserting the merits of a readjusted, carefully
contextualized, new comparativism. But, says Dempsey, the
inestimable advantages of the comparative method described by
religion scholars and performed in this book are disciplinary as
well as ethical. As demonstrated in this stimulating book, the
process of comparison can shed light on angles and contours
otherwise obscured and perform the important work of bridging human
contingencies and perception across religious, cultural, and
disciplinary divides.
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