Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint 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. Essays consider the saint's influence on everyday life
and how visual, narrative, textual, sensorial, performative,
political, social, and spatial practices interpenetrate to produce
multiple terrains of devotion. Contributions by twelve scholars of
several academic disciplines explore eruptions and circulations of
sacred materials, spatialities of devotional practices, visual and
digital imaginaries, transcultural narrativizations, and material
affects and effects of Sai Baba. The presentation transcends
routine scholarly discussions about sainthood, cultures of worship,
religious objects, Hinduism and Islam. Shirdi Sai Baba's presence
conveys inspiration and healing energies and he accepted the
entreaties of people of all castes and creeds, offering an
alternative to communal ideologies of his time - and the present.
Considerations of Shirdi Sai Baba's milieux of devotional praxis
situate and localize debates about the meaning of nation and
religion, past and present, urbanization, and class identity in
transitions from colonial to postcolonial/global South Asia. The
book expands the boundaries of the study of Shirdi Sai Baba and
makes important contributions to South Asia Studies, Anthropology,
Religious Studies, Global Studies, Urban Studies, Indian Ocean
Studies, Inter-Asian Studies, Visual and Media Studies, and
Cultural Geography.
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