True to its subtitle, Tulasi Srinivas' Winged Faith contributes valuably to the study of globalization and religious pluralism through the ethnographic study of a global religious movement. The central focus of the narrative questions whether a “South Asian understanding of plurality” rooted in “an idea of social inclusivity,” which informs the “basis for the Sai alternate understanding of cosmopolitanism” directs us toward a new praxis of “engaged cosmopolitanism” (p. 329). Srinivas argues that the Sai movement's complacency with and even promotion of cultural ambiguity institutes “a grammar of diversity,” which enables the movement to cohere despite its internal diversity. Devotees engage “a matrix of possible meanings in which interpretation constitutes agency” (p. 329). Theoretically intense, intellectually stimulating, and ethnographically delightful, Winged Faith artfully integrates theoretical momentum with detailed ethnographic research, crafting a project that is ultimately (to employ Geertz's famous depiction) both a model of and a model for dynamic...

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