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Neena Mahadev

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies

Featured Works


Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka

Book · October 31, 2023 Featured Publication Awarded the Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, 2024. Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocoloni ... Cite

The Charism of the Christian Left Dissidence as Habit in a Time of Bi-polar Theopolitics

Journal article Cambridge Journal of Anthropology · March 1, 2022 Featured Publication Through ethnography of recent peaceful dissent by Catholic and Protestant activists, life histories, and a reading of a postcolonial archive of contextually grounded liberation theology, I explore the theopolitics of grace that fuels the habits and habitus ... Full text Cite