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In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement (Numen Book Series) (Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions) by Smriti Srinivas is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement (Numen Book Series) (Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions) about?
The Sai Baba movement, centered on the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), today attracts a global following from Japan to South Africa. Regarded as a divine incarnation, Sathya Sai Baba traces his genealogy to Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918), a mendicant in colonial India identified with various Sufi and devotional genealogies. The movement, thus, has a oerootsa in Shirdi Sai Baba but as it globalizes, it has developed conjunctions with other religious traditions, New Religious movements, and New
Who reads In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement (Numen Book Series) (Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Smriti Srinivas
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004165434
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, World History, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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