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A19-118 Islamic Mysticism
Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit Theme: Sufism and
Yoga in Early Modern India Sunday, 9:00
AM–11:30 AM Shaman Hatley, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Presiding Heidi R. M. Pauwels, University of Washington: Encounters and Transformations: Yogis in the Sufi Romances (Premākhyān) Supriya Gandhi, Yale University: Sound, Breath, and Mystical Nondualism: Reading the Omnāma
Shankar Nair,
University of Virginia: Yoga for Sufis?
“Muslim Yoga” in a Persian Mughal Treatise Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Yoga for the Bengali Darveś:
The Esoteric Teachings of the Jñāna Pradīpa, Lamp of Knowledge Responding: Carl W.
Ernst, University of North Carolina Business Meeting: Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University, and Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, Presiding A19-268
Religion in South
Asia Unit Theme: Gendered
Traditions: Intersections of Gender, Genre, and Religion in South Asian
Storytelling Sunday, 3:00
PM–4:30 PM Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, Presiding Margaret Mills,
Ohio State U Emerita: Trickster: Global
Theories, Local Traditions, Gender, and Genre Coralynn Davis, Bucknell
University: Sāmā for the Ages and Sāmā
for Our Times: The Past and Future of Maithil
Women’s Storytelling in the Shifting Terrain of Gender and Society Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, University
of Illinois: The Folk Pativratā: Narrative Discourses on Hindu Womanhood in
Nepal Responding: Leela Prasad, Duke University A20-119
Hinduism Unit and
Religion in South Asia Unit Theme: Modernizing
the Language of the Gods: Religious Identity, Instruction, and Innovation in
Contemporary Sanskrit Monday, 9:00
AM–11:30 AM Shubha Pathak,
American University, Presiding Laurie Louise
Patton, Middlebury College: Sanskrit as
Personality Development: The Twentieth-Century Epics of Kshama
Rao Charles Preston, Millsaps College: Worshipping
the Nation, Teaching the World: Imagining Audiences and Identities in Modern
Sanskrit Poetry Finnian Moore Gerety,
Yale University: Amateur Hour:
Innovation, Instruction, and Identity in Sanskrit Dramas of Kerala Borayin Larios,
Heidelberg University: Proud to Be
Brahmin: Identity Construction and Self-Representation on Facebook Responding: Anne Monius, Harvard University A20-227
Religion in South
Asia Unit Theme: New
Directions in the Study of South Asian Religions Monday, 1:00
PM–3:30 PM Steven Vose, Florida International University, Presiding Lynna Dhanani,
Yale University: Hemacandra’s “Hymn to the Dispassionate One”: An
Inter-textual Definition of Jain Devotion Naseem Surhio,
Harvard University: Mystical
Exotericism: Situating the Call to Hadith by Muhammad Mu’in
al-Sindhi, a Sufi Scholar of the Eighteenth Century Julie Hanlon,
University of Chicago: From Hilltop
Ascetics to Courtly Advisers: The Development of Jain Monastic Communities
and Literary Production in Ancient Tamil Nadu, South India Yael Lazar, Duke
University: Shree Siddhivinayak
Dot Com: Hindu Temples’ Adoption of Digital Media Responding: Anne Monius, Harvard University A20-328 Religion in South
Asia Unit Theme: The Other
Religious Politics: Making Religion in the Service of Secularity Monday, 4:00
PM–6:30 PM Ananya Dasgupta,
Case Western Reserve University: Secular
Imaginations of a Muslim Homeland: Bengali Muslim Cultural Activists of the
1940s and Their Antecedents Dean Accardi, Connecticut College: Kashmiriyat, Hindutva, and Secularist Visions of
Religion in Kashmir Philip Friedrich,
University of Pennsylvania: Vicissitudes
of the Sāsana: Linking and Delinking Religion and
Politics in Sri Lanka Jaclyn Michael,
James Madison University: Visions of
Religious Belonging and Secular India in Premchand’s
Karbala Responding: Brian
K. Pennington, Elon University A21-119 Religion in South
Asia Unit Theme: Constructing
Powerful Selves: Autobiography in South Asia Tuesday, 9:00
AM–11:30 AM Kristin Bloomer,
Carleton College, Presiding Alyson Prude,
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater: Authority
and Vulnerability: Tibetan Buddhist Women’s Oral Life Narratives Ben Williams,
Harvard University: Abhinavagupta as a Cosmopolitan Siddha: Religious
Sources for Writing the Self in Medieval Kashmir J. Barton Scott,
University of Toronto: A Bourgeois
Ethic for Hindu Bombay: Victorian Self-Help and the Gujarati Travelogue Chloe Martinez,
Claremont McKenna College: “An Eminent
Mohammedan Moulvie”: Autobiography and Conversion
in Colonial Punjab Responding: Janet Gyatso, Harvard University RISA Home Page | RISA-L Indexes
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