Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions

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Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions is written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791476340 (ISBN 10) and 9780791476345 (ISBN 13).

Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native. Book jacket.