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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 to help contain and kill pestilence. Collectively known as “Amman,” or the Divine Mother, the goddesses of contagion – and it always goddesses, not gods – have been called on […]

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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 are missing stories about how religions are transforming community responses to climate change, and how climate change is transforming religion. featuring Jeffrey Cohen (Arizona State University), Ben Ehrenreich (The Nation),

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Walking amid Wonder: Tulasi Srinivas and Namita Dharia in Conversation

 Namita Dharia and Tulasi Srinivas discuss the possibilities for an anthropology of wonder. Their conversation builds out from Srinivas’s latest book, “The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder,” and explores questions of positionality in the field, canonical inheritances, and experiments with ethnographic writing. Sonic landscapes from Srinivas’s fieldsite weave in and out of

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