Browsing by Subject "Hinduism"
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Can a Hindu be Black?: A Study of Black Americans and Hinduism
(2021)Nearly half a century ago, acclaimed jazz musician Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), marital partner of saxophonist John Coltrane, began disseminating Hindu (Vedanta) teachings and jazz-inflected bhajans (songs of praise) in her ... -
Challenging Advaitic and Universalist Notions of Hinduism
(2019)Within the academic study of Hinduism, there is a tendency to misrepresent Indian religion by portraying it as entirely Advaita Vedānta, the monistic ideology commonly associated with Śaṅkara. By looking at reasons for Advaita ... -
Divine Exposures: Religion and Imposture in Colonial India
(2009)My dissertation interrogates the figure of the priestly charlatan in colonial India. It begins in a theoretical register by arguing that the unmasking of charlatans serves as a metonym for the secularizing procedures of ... -
Mountain at a Center of the World
(2018)“Mountain at a Center of the World” examines the pilgrimage site of Sri Pada, or Adam’s Peak, in Sri Lanka, explaining its worldwide significance across multiple religious traditions over the past millennium. Drawing on ... -
Networked Devotion: Hindu Adoption of Digital Media
(2018)Digital media prevail, determine, and shape contemporary lives and experiences, serving as an all-encompassing cultural system. Shaping modes of production and reception, digital media’s publics are networked to the media’s ... -
Visionary Experience of Mantra : An Ethnography in Andhra-Telangana
(2016)The use of codified sacred utterances, formulas or hymns called “mantras” is widespread in India. By and large, scholarship over the last few decades studies and explains mantras by resorting to Indian sources from over ...
