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Neena Mahadev

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Buddhist “Magic” and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Book section · October 1, 2025 Based on comparative anthropological fieldwork observations in Singapore, Sri Lanka, and the United States, this chapter examines the lived experience of prēta or “hungry ghosts” in Asian Buddhist lifeworlds. The chapter parses out and defines the spectrum ... Full text Cite