Download PDF: Malladi RV, Impersonations Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 215 pages. $34.95. Kamath’s book is an ethnographic study of the practice of gendered guising in the Kuchipudi dance tradition of South India. Kuchipudi is both a
Download PDF: Spina, Across Boundaries and Borders Abstract The topic of this article is focused within the broader context of transnational religion and migration. The article examines how innovation and performance interact in the context of a North American
“Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context” is a unique theory-practice undergraduate course at Emory University cross-listed between the Departments of Dance and Religion. The course, now having been taught four times, includes a lecture component on Indian aesthetics
Download PDF: Flueckiger, Writing with Fragments and Silences * Editors’ Note: This essay is part of the Roundtable on Ethnography and Religion. Robert Orsi articulates two anxieties that I have often experienced in the writing of ethnography: the pressure to articulate a
Download PDF: Exploring Conflict and Peacebuilding Exploring World Religions through the Lens of Sacred Space “Sacred Space in World Religions” is a course taught at Candler School of Theology as a summer intensive. In it, we take advantage of the
Download PDF: Resources in Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Introduction The amount of literature that could be included in a bibliography on religion, violence, and peacebuilding is vast and attempting to delineate the nuances between each thinker and theory in our allotted
Download PDF:Gottschalk and Schmalz, Better Left Unsaid Introduction Teaching about religion in South Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka has tended to depend on images of discreet “religions” Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Christianity, some of which appear
Download PDF: RV Devarajan, Poetics of Conduct By Leela Prasad New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 291 pages. $28.00 Set in the town of Sringeri, in Northwest Karnataka, South India, Leela Prasad’s book Poetics of Conduct describes the intersection of authoritative institutional and