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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.
India’s goddesses of contagion provide protection in the pandemic – just don’t make them angry
Hindus in India have had a helping hand – several in fact – when it comes to fighting deadly contagions like COVID-19: multi-armed goddesses co-opted
Bathing the Gods in Bottled Water: An Account of Climate Change and Faith
What If?What if you woke up one morning and the pristine, sacred river where you bathed your gods had turned into an oily, noxious-smelling sewer?
Religion, Media, & Climate Change: What’s the Story?
Journalist Ben Ehrenreich (The Nation) says the media isn’t telling the right stories about climate change. Anthropologist and religious studies professor Tulasi Srinivas (Emerson College) argues that journalists and scientists
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