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... complement primary texts to reveal a more human experience of the Indian Ocean World. These diverse sources and methods yield different perspectives and sources of information that enhance the historical record of texts alone. archaeology architecture art music popular religion ...

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.... An examination of how devotees’ perceptions of race have influenced the social history of the cult since its inception counters the temptation to regard “creolization” as a unifying harmonization, rather than a contested process. Scholars of African American religions are challenged to conduct more closely drawn...

... This chapter is an autobiographical essay in which the author briefly describes the origins and characteristics of paganism (and its most popular branch, Wicca) and shares details of her spiritual journey to uncovering her inner pagan. From shaking hands to blessing someone when they sneeze...

... This chapter examines how Global India is temporally and provisionally fixed by specific discourses of morality across four apparently discrepant nodes: conceptions of Resurgent India circulated via a government campaign and in popular discourse, moral panics surrounding the celebration...

... in their lives. Rooted within more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, this essay analyzes the music tracks and political worldviews of American desi rappers who forge connections across nations and religions to identify with other Brown youth in North Africa and the Middle East. “Muslim-looking” rappers...

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... who constructed her shrines. An examination of how devotees’ perceptions of race have influenced the social history of the cult since its inception counters the temptation to regard “creolization” as a unifying harmonization, rather than a contested process. Scholars of African American religions...

... of exposure. Analysis of disappearance in witchcraft ritual suggests that one accesses magic by actively acknowledging and accessing loss, of doing something with and to it. Considering modern witchcraft's growing popularity and intersectionality, particularly in the context of the global pandemic...

... neighborhoods is a response to the inefficacy of law enforcement agencies, she used her ethnographic work to complicate the picture, showing that violence had broader grounds in postapartheid society, that popular anxieties regarding insecurity had multiple causes, and that demands for social justice were...