The Hagiographer and the Avatar Philip HarlingExamines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement. In this biographical study, Antonio Rigopoulos explores the fundamental role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement: in this case, the postsectarian, cosmopolitan community of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba. The guru's hagiographer, Narayan Kasturi, was already a distinguished litterateur by the time he first met Sathya Sai Baba in 1948. The two lived
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This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States
Days of Heaven
This study is the first to offer a diversity of hermeneutic approaches and themes in the context of medieval works
Good herd health management takes a holistic approach and is ongoing and cyclical
In times of dramatic social changes
in which he envisions the kind of government and religion needed to fulfill Islam's ambition of universal acceptance
comprehension of these visions can turn the visionary experience into a step in growth or into a disorder
as well as challenges in implementing and managing such systems whilst ensuring a high animal health and welfare level
the notion of "being called to care" is of relevance to all human service professionals who are responsible for ministering to the needs of others
to analyze factors that separate the sample countries that made rapid economic progress in “catching up” and those that tend to be stagnating and “falling behind
