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I’m giving a talk via Zoom, on my new book, Karma & Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, soon (March 27th)! Check me out! Columbia University Press Thanks to American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies for hosting!

Hungry Ghosts! I've published a new chapter *Buddhist “Magic” and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective* in the Oxford Handbook of Lived Religion (eds) Brooke Schedneck & Courtney Brutz. #religiousstudies doi.org/10.1093/oxford…

@RobertJRalston I'm sorry but if you are not writing at this level (👇) by now, what have you even done with your career. Perchance. x.com/PhilJamesson/s…

My book #KarmaandGrace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, featured on the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social)! Jessica Zu asked astute questions that get to the heart of my work. newbooksnetwork.com/karma-and-grac… Published by Columbia University Press IRCPL at Columbia University

Extended deadline for the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) graduate student paper prize competition! Aimed towards encouraging emerging scholars to write compelling ethnographies on religion and theoretically significant, ethnographically rich student work.

|!The Immanent Frame has launched its newest forum: "Ruinations: Violence in these times"!| The introduction by Mark Juergensmeyer and first essay by Laura Levitt can be found here: tif.ssrc.org/category/ruina… SSRC #religion #violence #essays #ruination

Excellent and timely essays on religion & violence from The Immanent Frame! The essays by Mark Juergensmeyer and Laura Levitt are so vital. Keep your eyes peeled - my essay will be released here in a few weeks! Thanks to editor Mona Oraby & Suzanne van Geuns

NEW | "Building the world that must be," @lauramctighe and Deon Haywood share in conversation with Camille Roane about Black feminist alternative futures on Women With A Vision's front porch. tif.ssrc.org/2024/08/28/bui…

NEW | "Carceral afterlives: Recording my father’s prison memoirs," Walaa Quisay's autoethnographic reflection on carcerality, thought, politics, and teaching. tif.ssrc.org/2024/09/04/car…

CoronAsur: Call for short contributions on Pandemic Leftovers: Life and Ritual in the 'New Normal.' buff.ly/3z2wQLn #religion #ritual #pandemic #covid19

Pleased that my piece is out! This will be interesting for those thinking about nationalisms--even in global north--that circulate and clash with one another. Creatively thinking and acting in ways to get out of the impasse and disagreement is essential, in these times.

Lisa Tuttle is wonderfully generous to THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS in this roundup in the Guardian: “thrillingly new and different, this bears comparison to works by Kafka and Samuel R Delany. An outstanding, genre-shattering work.” theguardian.com/books/article/…

An excellent new piece by Suzanne van Geuns Suzanne van Geuns

This collection on Religion and Violence In These Times is excellent - I recommend it highly, for your own reflection and teaching. Vital, in these times! The Immanent Frame ! My essay is on the aftermath of war, reshuffled patterns of violence, spiritual warfare, and peacemaking.

I’m thrilled to share that my book Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka won the 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize from Society for the Anthropology of Religion awarded at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion meeting, American Anthropological Association! Thanks SAR, IRCPL at Columbia University Columbia University Press!

We are pleased to announce that Neena Mahadev's KARMA AND GRACE is the Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, this book illuminates disputes

The Social Scientists' Association congratulates Neena Mahadev on her book KARMA AND GRACE winning the 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion.

The G.L. Louis Research Cluster on Religious Pluralism NUS kicks off Friday January 24, featuring an inaugural distinguished lecture by Angie Heo of UChicago Divinity School . Prof Heo will speak on Border Wars and the Making of Religious Difference. eventbrite.sg/e/border-wars-…

I just made a donation to OMNIA. Check out their peace building work at OmniaLeadership.org. Donate at crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation…

In the middle of the dumbing down of everything, here is a guy apparently in Tampa of all places (how does he do that!?) writing something important and obvious and never said any longer about academic writing. chronicle.com/article/everyo…