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Sathya Sai Baba is an important contemporary Hindu
guru with large numbers of followers in India and around the world. He is known for
his forthright claim to be an avatar or divine incarnation and for his readiness to
demonstrate his yogic powers through "miracles" that are regularly witnessed by
his followers and even by skeptical observers. Sai Baba is a good example of a guru
who belongs to no traditional lineage but emerges because of his own personal charisma.
Web Resources
Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust (Official site in India)
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba: Kali Avatar
RISA-L Bibliography on Sathya Sai Baba 
Books and Articles
Babb, Lawrence A. 1987. Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Babb, Lawrence A. 1987. "Sathya Sai Baba's Saintly Play." In Saints and Virtues, ed. by John Stratton Hawley, 168-86. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Babb, Lawrence A. 1991. "Sathya Sai Baba's Miracles." In Religion in India, ed. T. S. Madan, 277-92. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Hummel, Reinhart. 1985. "Guru, Miracle Worker, Religious Founder: Sathya Sai Baba." New Religious Movements 9, no. 3 (September): 8-19. [Abstract: The career of Sathya Sai Baba demonstrates how a powerful guru can win a mass following even in modern India and with western disciples as well. His enormous self-assessment as "integral avatar," who even sent Christ into incarnation, as center of a "Sai Trinity" and founder of the all-inclusive Sai-religion is validated by his miracles and by his charismatic way of dealing with potential disciples. Modern guru-avatars represent a post-Christian type of Hinduism. They are experienced by their followers of different religious affiliations as a revitalizing and ecumenical force.]
Klass, Morton. 1991. Singing with Sai Baba: The Politics of Revitalization in Trinidad. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.
Taylor, Donald. 1987. "Charismatic Authority in the Sathya Sai Baba Movement." In Hinduism in Great Britain: The Perpetuation of Religion in an Alien Cultural Milieu, ed. Richard Burghart. London, New York: Tavistock Publications.
Swallow, D. A. 1982. "Ashes and Powers: Myth, Rite and Miracle in an Indian God-man's Cult." Modern Asian Studies16, no 1: 123-158.
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