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- JCA Book Review by Barbara Hausmair: Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression: Dark Modernities edited by James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka
- JCA Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City by Carolyn L. White
- JCA Book Reviews: Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. By Adrian Currie
- JCA Book Reviews: Networked Remembrance: Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways Beneath London and Berlin. By Samuel Merrill
- JCA Book Reviews: Reluctant Landscapes: Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal. By François Richard
- JCA Book Reviews: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert. S. Emmett
- Lewis, A. David and Martin Lund, eds. Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $24.93 (paperback). by Aaron Ricker
- Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. By Emily Ogden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 268. $27.50 (paperback), $82.50 (hardcover). by Charles McCrary
Tag Archives: Ratha Yatra
The Origins of the Juggernaut
This post originally appeared on the OUP blog. by Michael J. Altman People deploy the word juggernaut to describe anyone or anything that seems unstoppable, powerful, dominant. The Golden State Warriors, the recent National Basketball Association champions, are a juggernaut. National … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Contributor, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Ruminations, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Christianity, Claudius Buchanan, Heathen Hindoo Hindu: American Representations of India 1721-1893, Hinduism, Idol, Idolatry, India, Jagannath, Juggernaut, Marvel comics, Michael J. Altman, Mike Altman, missionaries, Ratha Yatra, Religion, religious studies, Representation, scholarship, study of religion
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Indian Child-Tossing Ritual and Selective Social Outrage
By Deeksha Sivakumar Which children should we save? On the one hand, the Bagalkot baby-tossing ritual has no recorded deaths and yet receives abhorrence. Audience members tweeted and emailed NDTV that they were appalled at the State’s lack of regulation … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, Religion and Society
Tagged Bagalkot, British colonialism, Child-tossing ritual, Hinduism, India, infant deaths, NDTV, Ratha Yatra, Suttee
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