{"product_id":"bringing-the-sacred-down-to-earth-adventures-in-comparative-religion-9780199860326","title":"Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion","description":"In \u003cem\u003eBringing the Sacred Down to Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome 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 of this view, 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 performed in this book are disciplinary as well as ethical. As she demonstrates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Corinne G. Dempsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199860326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorinne G. Dempsey\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Nazareth College. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eKerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies award for best monograph in Hindu-Christian studies, 2000-2002.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45215077466227,"sku":"9780199860326","price":93.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_53b05d60-43bd-4247-a5c2-96c1f586e77c.jpg?v=1783687254","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/bringing-the-sacred-down-to-earth-adventures-in-comparative-religion-9780199860326","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}