Neena Mahadev
@NeenaMahadev
Karma & Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka Anthropology, religion, pluralism, violence, political economy, media, Buddhism, Christianity, Asia
It's officially out! Karma & Grace will be available for sale at the @AmericanAnthro meetings @IngramAcademic book booth. During the@AARWebconference, you'll find it @ColumbiaUP book booth! paperback, hardback, & e-book available. Use discount code CUP20 for online purchases.
Now available! "Neena Mahadev’s book is a fascinating, innovative work of religious anthropology that explores the historical co-formation of modernity and religion in Sri Lanka. "–Sudipta Kaviraj buff.ly/3Rrq7RS
My review of Maria José de Abreu's excellent book, *The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, & Religious Revivalism in Brazil* just came out in American Anthropologist! On religion & right-wing populism. So relevant in these harrowing times! @DukePress doi.org/10.1111/aman.2…
In the middle of the dumbing down of everything, here is a guy apparently in Tampa of all places (how does he do that!?) writing something important and obvious and never said any longer about academic writing. chronicle.com/article/everyo…
I just made a donation to @OMNIALeads. Check out their peace building work at OmniaLeadership.org. Donate at crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation…
The Social Scientists' Association congratulates @NeenaMahadev on her book KARMA AND GRACE winning the 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion.
We are pleased to announce that Neena Mahadev's KARMA AND GRACE is the Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, this book illuminates disputes…
The G.L. Louis Research Cluster on Religious Pluralism @NUSingapore kicks off Friday January 24, featuring an inaugural distinguished lecture by Angie Heo of @UChiDivinity . Prof Heo will speak on Border Wars and the Making of Religious Difference. eventbrite.sg/e/border-wars-…
We are pleased to announce that Neena Mahadev's KARMA AND GRACE is the Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, this book illuminates disputes…
I’m thrilled to share that my book Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka won the 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize from @AnthroReligion awarded at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion meeting, @AmericanAnthro! Thanks SAR, @IRCPL_Columbia @ColumbiaUP!
This collection on Religion and Violence In These Times is excellent - I recommend it highly, for your own reflection and teaching. Vital, in these times! @ImmanentFrame ! My essay is on the aftermath of war, reshuffled patterns of violence, spiritual warfare, and peacemaking.
NEW | Today, William Cavanaugh closes our Ruinations forum with an incisive question: Does "religion and violence" discourse get to the root of violence, or does it point us towards certain kinds of violence while making it possible to ignore others? tif.ssrc.org/2024/10/09/thi…
An excellent new piece by Suzanne van Geuns @suusreport
NEW | "Rabid for a peace," @suusreport's reflection on the path from frustration to violence among incel mass murderers--and how those moments teach us about what happens when society breaks down. tif.ssrc.org/2024/09/25/rab…
Lisa Tuttle is wonderfully generous to THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS in this roundup in the Guardian: “thrillingly new and different, this bears comparison to works by Kafka and Samuel R Delany. An outstanding, genre-shattering work.” theguardian.com/books/article/…
Pleased that my piece is out! This will be interesting for those thinking about nationalisms--even in global north--that circulate and clash with one another. Creatively thinking and acting in ways to get out of the impasse and disagreement is essential, in these times.
NEW | "Rhetorics of violence after the war," @NeenaMahadev discusses the sentiments of religious difference that pattern violence after civil war in Sri Lanka. tif.ssrc.org/2024/09/11/mis…
CoronAsur: Call for short contributions on Pandemic Leftovers: Life and Ritual in the 'New Normal.' buff.ly/3z2wQLn #religion #ritual #pandemic #covid19
NEW | "Carceral afterlives: Recording my father’s prison memoirs," Walaa Quisay's autoethnographic reflection on carcerality, thought, politics, and teaching. tif.ssrc.org/2024/09/04/car…
NEW | "Building the world that must be," @lauramctighe and Deon Haywood share in conversation with Camille Roane about Black feminist alternative futures on Women With A Vision's front porch. tif.ssrc.org/2024/08/28/bui…
Excellent and timely essays on religion & violence from @ImmanentFrame! The essays by @juergensmeyer and Laura Levitt are so vital. Keep your eyes peeled - my essay will be released here in a few weeks! Thanks to editor @MonaOrabee & Suzanne van Geuns
|!The Immanent Frame has launched its newest forum: "Ruinations: Violence in these times"!| The introduction by Mark Juergensmeyer and first essay by Laura Levitt can be found here: tif.ssrc.org/category/ruina… @ssrc_org #religion #violence #essays #ruination
|!The Immanent Frame has launched its newest forum: "Ruinations: Violence in these times"!| The introduction by Mark Juergensmeyer and first essay by Laura Levitt can be found here: tif.ssrc.org/category/ruina… @ssrc_org #religion #violence #essays #ruination
Extended deadline for the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) graduate student paper prize competition! Aimed towards encouraging emerging scholars to write compelling ethnographies on religion and theoretically significant, ethnographically rich student work.
My book #KarmaandGrace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, featured on the @NewBooksNetwork! @JessicaZu7 asked astute questions that get to the heart of my work. newbooksnetwork.com/karma-and-grac… Published by @ColumbiaUP @IRCPL_Columbia
I'm sorry but if you are not writing at this level (👇) by now, what have you even done with your career. Perchance. x.com/PhilJamesson/s…
|!The Immanent Frame has launched its newest forum: "Ruinations: Violence in these times"!| The introduction by Mark Juergensmeyer and first essay by Laura Levitt can be found here: tif.ssrc.org/category/ruina… @ssrc_org #religion #violence #essays #ruination
Hungry Ghosts! I've published a new chapter *Buddhist “Magic” and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective* in the Oxford Handbook of Lived Religion (eds) Brooke Schedneck & Courtney Brutz. #religiousstudies doi.org/10.1093/oxford…