Investigating the Sai Baba Movement

Affords a critical assessment of the so-called Sai Baba movement, giving information about figures who are rarely seen in due perspective. Provides a biographical overview of three saints who lived in Maharashtra. The most well known in India is Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918). The Muslim context of this Hinduized figure is carefully probed. Upasni Maharaj (d. 1941) is traced as the Hindu disciple of Shirdi Sai who established Sakori ashram. Meher Baba (d. 1969), of Irani Zoroastrian ancestry, is described from his period at Sakori with Upasni Maharaj. In addition, three appendices cover the recent dramatic exposure of Satya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi by ex-devotees, an exposure which has contradicted the claim of this figure to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai. 480 annotations and Index.

ISBN 0952508931   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780952508939 (What's this?)   Pages 348 Publisher Citizen Initiative   Published in Dorchester Imprint Citizen Initiative   Height (mm) 232 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 154 Publication date 01 Oct 2005   Academic level General, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 294.561

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