Bibliography on Sai Baba
Contributed
by Suzanne Newcombe, University of Cambridge
Note:
While not completely comprehensive (especially in regards to devotional
sources) this provides a good orientation to Sai Baba.
Devotional
Sources
There
are a number of propaganda films at http://www.saibabafilms.com/
which help put Sai Baba in the India cultural context.
There
is a more comprehensive directory of devotional books at: http://www.saibabalinks.org/booksaibaba.htm
Devotional
Websites are numerous, included but not limited to:
http://www.sathyasai.org
http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/
http://www.srisathyasai.org.uk/
http://www.eaisai.com/baba/
Hislop,
John (1985) My Baba And I. San Diego:
Birth Day Pub. Co
Krystal,
P. (1985). Sai Baba: The Ultimate Experience. York Beach, ME,
Samuel Weiser, Inc
Krystal,
P. (1990 (first published in 1982)). Cutting the Ties That Bind.
Shaftesbury, Dorset, Turnstone Press Ltd.
Mason,
P. and R. Laing (1993). Sai Baba: The Embodiement of Love. Bath,
Gateway Books
Murphet,
H. (1971). Sai Baba: Man of Miracles. London, Vrindavanum Books
Murphet,
H. (1990). Sai Baba Avatar. Springwood, NSW, Butterfly Books
Sandweiss,
S. H. (1975). Sai Baba: The Holy Man...
...and the Psychiatrist. San Diego, Birth Day Publishing
Critical
Sources
Much
of the critical information is available on the internet.
The
include but are not limited to:
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/shree_sai_baba.htm
http://SaiBabaExposed.blogspot.com
http://bdsteel.tripod.com/More/index.html
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/
www.exbaba.nl
http://www.snowcrest.net/sunrise/aafield.htm
Brooke,
Tal (1999) Avatar of
Night End Run Publishing. [First published as Lord of the Air in
1976].
Premanand,
Basava (2001) The Murders in Sai Baba's Bedroom. Podanur:
Indian Skeptic. Purchase information at: http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/bedroom.htm
Shepherd,
Kevin R.D. (2005) Investigating the Sai Baba Movement: A Clarification
of Misrepresented Saints and Opportunism. Citizen Initiative.
Szandorowska,
B. (1991). Escape from the Guru. Eastbourne, East Sussex, MARC.
Videos
which (apparently!) point out slight of hand: http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/movies.html#01
Significant
Journalistic Reports
Brown,
Mick (1998) The Spiritual
Tourist. London:
Bloomsbury Publishing.
BBC (2004) This World: The Secret Swami. Aired on 17 June 2004. Transcript available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/3791921.stm
BBC
(1995) ‘Guru Busters’ Aired on Channel 4. Video information available
at: http://home.hetnet.nl/~ex-baba/engels/movies.html#Guru%20Busters
Academic
Sources
Babb,
L. A. (1983). "Sathya Sai Baba's Magic." Anthropological
Quarterly 56(3): 116-124
Babb,
L.A. (1987) Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu
Tradition. Berkley: UC Press.
Bowen,
David (1988) The Sathya
Sai Baba Community in Bradford: Its origins and development, religious
beliefs and practices. Leeds: University Press.
Burghart,
R., Ed. (1987). Hinduism in Great Britain: The Perpetration of Religion in
an Alien Cultural Milieu. London, Tavistock
Ellwood,
R. S. (1973). Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall.
Exon,
B. (1995). "Self-accounting for Conversion by Western Devotees of
Modern Hindu Religious Movements." DISKUS 3(2): 74-82
Haraldsson,
E. (1987). Miracles are my Visiting Cards. London, Rider Books.
This
is the classic ‘investigation’ into the validity of Sai Baba’s
miracles. The author was able to neither prove nor disprove the miracles
in any definitive way.
Kent,
A. (2000). "Creating Divine Unity: Chinese Recruitment in the Sathya
Sai Baba Movement of Malaysia." Journal of Contemporary Religion
15(1): 5-27
Palmer,
Norris W. (2005) “Baba’s World: A Global Guru and His Movement” in
Gurus
in America. Thomas A. Forsthoefel and
Cynthia Ann Humes (ed) Albany: SUNNY Press, 138-175.
Sharma,
A. (1986). New Hindu religious movements in India. New Religious Movements
and Rapid Social Change. J. A. Beckford. London, Sage/Unesco: 220-239
Srinivas,
S. (1999). "The Brahmin and the Fakir: Suburban Religiosity in the
Cult of Shirdi Sai Baba." Journal of Contemporary Religion 14(2):
245-262
Srinivas,
S. (2001) "The advent of the avatar: The urban following of Sathya
Sai Baba and its construction of tradition." In Vasudha Dalmia,
Angelika Malinar and Martin Christof–Fuechsle, eds. Charisma and
Canon: The Formation of Religious Identity in South Asia . Delhi:
Oxford University Press: 293-309.
Swallow,
D. (1982). " Ashes and Powers: Myth, Rite and Miracle in an Indian
God-Man's Cult." Modern Asian Studies 16(1): 123-15
Taylor,
D. (1987). Charismatic Authority in the Sathya Sai Baba Movement. Hinduism
in Great Britain. R. Burquart. London, Tavistock.
Taylor,
D. (1987). Sathya Sai Baba Movement in Britain. The New Evangelists:
Recruitment, Methods and Aims of NRMs. P. Clarke. London, Ethnographica
Thomas,
C. M. (1987). " God Men, Myths, Materialisations, and the Kalas of
Immortality." Journal for the Society of Psychical Research 55(819):
377-403
Hugh B. Urban (2003) 'Avatar for Our Age: Sathya Sai Baba and the
Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism', Religion 33: 73-93.
Vroon,
Piet (1993) “Santa Claus in India” in Indian Skeptic 6(4), p. 8-16
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