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  1. The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil

    Article • American Anthropologist, July 2025, Wiley

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  2. Hungry Ghosts in Inter-Asian Perspectives: Karmic Connections Between the Living and the Dead

    Article • May 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  3. Introduction: Inter-Religion in Sri Lanka

    Article • December 2023, Columbia University Press

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  4. Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance

    Article • Religion, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  5. The Charism of the Christian Left

    Article • The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, March 2022, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  6. Vijaya and Kuweni retold

    Article • August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  7. Rivalry, religious economies, and Buddhist-Christian difference and conflict

    Article • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory, September 2019, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  8. Sacrifice & anti-sacrifice: Post-war conflict and belonging

    Article • Religion and Society, September 2019, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  9. Siting Pluralism: Religious Pluralism and Spatialities of Religious Difference

    Article • Religion and Society, September 2019, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  10. Religion, Identity, and Political Economy in Sri Lanka

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  11. Secularism and Religious Modernity in Sri Lanka and Singapore: Trans-regional Revivalism Considered

    Article • June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  12. Religious competition and ritual innovation in a new Buddhist movement in Sri Lanka

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  13. The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka's Tsunami Disaster. By Michele Ruth Gamburd. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 234 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  14. Conversion Conflicts : Charitable Gifts, Devotional Spectacles, and Contested Religious Commitments

    Article • September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Neena Mahadev

  15. Kapferer, Bruce. Legends of people, myths of state: violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (new, revised edition). xli, 401 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books (Smithsonian Inst. Press), 2012. £22.00 (

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Neena Mahadev