Miracle As Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions.

Intro -- Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Divine Proof or Tenacious Embarrassment?The Wonders of the Modern Miraculous -- PART I. Miracles and Modern Ambivalence -- 2. The Neo-Vedanta Miracle -- 3. Miraculous Health and Medical Itineration amongSatnamis and Christians in Late Colonial Chhattisgarh -- 4. Kataragama and the Tsunami: The Adbhuta, Ascarya, and the Pratiharya -- PART II. Making and Breaking Shrine Reputations -- 5. Showing Miracles in Rajasthan: Proof and Grace -- 6. A Miracle (or Two)in Tiruchirapalli -- 7. The Science of the Miraculous at an Upstate New York Temple -- PART III. Managing the Establishment:Miracles and Popular Expression -- 8. An Ethnographic Encounterwith the Wondrous in a South Indian Catholic Shrine -- 9. The "Deep Secret"and Dangers of Karamat: Miraculous Acts, Revelation, and Secrecy in a South Indian Sufi Tradition -- 10. Media of Miracles,Miracle of Media: Clairvoyants and Commercials on South Asian Television in the Diaspora -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.

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