Cultural Mediation of Sacred Experience
John, Karla B.
Studies on the idea of 'sacred' received a renewed interest in the academic
domain especially after the postcolonial interrogation of the Western gaze on the
Eastern cultures and religions. This has resulted in the focus on the native point of
view in anthropological and ethnographical studies on the one hand, and on the
cultural thrust in the study of religion, on the other. But the textual mediations of the
sacred has, hitherto, remained lea...