Editor’s Note: The following text was presented by Lalruatkima at the First Annual Meeting of ISS in Portland, OR. It was the framing statement for the discussion on Meaning: Who? Whence? Video for the discussion…
Organized as a seminar, the 2017 Meeting will be focused on the Nation/State as major theme. Broadly construed to include geographically-extensive U.N.–recognized entities as well as non-extensive, non-U.N. recognized movements, regional and local bodies in…
Trust: notes on authority and secular scripturalizing James S. Bielo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio bielojs@miamioh.edu Tom is an atheist. He is an atheist, but his preferred term of self-identification…
The Countervailing Dynamics of Sanskritization Strategies and Vernacularizing Practices in Hindu Scriptural Traditions Barbara A. Holdrege, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara June 2016 In this essay I will interrogate the complex…