Sathya Sai Baba Movement in Argentina

Throughout its long history, India has been prolific in the emergence of saints and gurus. In the 20th century, Sathya Sai Baba (born 1926-died 2011) rose to prominence as a great spiritual leader who captured the attention of millions of people worldwide, especially from the mid-1960s onward. Drawing on the wisdom of Hinduism, he reformulated it to make it accessible and compatible with a wide variety of religious beliefs, building bridges particularly with Christianity as a gateway to the West. The Sai Baba movement can thus be considered a neo-Hindu movement that reorganizes traditional elements of Hindu spirituality within the context of religious transnationalism and the Western consumption of Eastern spiritualities. The Sai Baba movement experienced remarkable growth from the 1960s onward – the Interntional Sathya Sai Organization (ISSO) was founded in 1967 – initially spreading to Western Europe (with Great Britain being a pioneer in this regard), North America, and Southeast Asia. In Latin America, the establishment of the Sai Baba movement was later, beginning in the late 1970s and especially in the first half of the 1980s. Rodolfo Puglisi Doctor en Antropologia. Investigador Independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET). Especializado en el campo de la antropologia de la religion