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Professor Tulasi Srinivas

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Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Affairs, Institute for liberal Arts, Emerson College!

Wonder = Radical Hope

In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder—a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. 

Wonder and Creativity

The Anthropology of Wonder

Area of Expertise!

Srinivas  is an award-winning Indian- American anthropologist whose focus is on culture and politics. Providing well-written relevant discussion of sociocultural anthropology that everyone will find accessible,  one of her goals is to transform how the public thinks about anthropology.

Trained as a comparative religion scholar, but with a particular expertise on Hinduism and Islam in India, and the Hindu diaspora globally, Srinivas is an “expert” with the World Economic Forum on matters of faith. Drawing from her decades long study of religion in India she provides expert commentary on PRI and NPR.

Born in India and with expertise on the region of South Asia as a whole, Srinivas understands and articulates the complexities of history, politics and economics of the region for several news outlets, including The Boston Globe. Provides detailed analysis of the news of the region and the region’s impact on the world. 

Trained as a comparative religion scholar, but with a particular expertise on Hinduism and Islam in India, and the Hindu diaspora globally, Srinivas is an “expert” with the World Economic Forum on matters of faith. Drawing from her decades long study of religion in India she provides expert commentary on PRI and NPR.

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