Tulasi Srinivas
Biographic Data
| ID | 119715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tulasi Srinivas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tulasi |
| FAMILY NAME | Srinivas |
| SIGNATURE | SRINIVAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emerson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5908-805X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Magic in the House of Wisdom
The Endless Story: Myth as Ethics, Ethics as Myth
Toward a Riparian Theo-Ecology: A Meditation on Hinduism and Climate Change
“Swiggy it!”
This article is a critical inquiry into the shifting nature of the local and the proximate during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the ubiquitous usage of food delivery software applications, or “gastro apps,” in Bangalore, India. I invite a new way to think about the local—both the lived experience of locality and its mapping in techno-location—in the face of the expanding virtual terrain of the global political economy and the foreclosing social …
Artful Living: New Religious Movements in and of South Asia
Doubtful Illusions: Magic, Wonder and the Politics of Virtue in the Sathya Sai Movement
This article examines the embattled intersection of magic and rationality in the transnational Sathya Sai movement and positions the magical materializations of the charismatic "godman" Sathya Sai Baba, and the sacred objects thus produced, within the neo-liberal economy. It then explores the tensions between the twin processes of magical production and rational debunking set against the framework of the discourse of nation building in contempora…
Articles of Faith: Material Piety, Devotional Aesthetics and the Construction of a Moral Economy in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement
Despite a broad and growing devotee base for the transnational Sathya Sai Movement, little research exists on Sai sacred objects: their meanings, their patterns of circulation and their production and exchange in the world of Sai devotion. This article offers a meditation on these Sai sacred artifacts, their visuality, their modes of acquisition by devotees and their multiple biographies in various realms. I analyze the hermeneutics of quiddity t…
Building Faith: Religious Pluralism, Pedagogical Urbanism, and Governance in the Sathya Sai Sacred City
Everyday Exotic: T ransnational S pace , I dentity and C ontemporary F oodways in B angalore C ity
The relationship between food and identity grows more complex every day as globalization and the accompanying movement of peoples, cultures and capital define new ideological and sensory frontiers. This article examines the changing gastronomic landscape of Bangalore, India, during the past decade of rapid globalization through writings on food in the city. The entry of transnational food companies have moved Bangaloreans away from the tastes and…
Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore
This paper examines the changing nature of Hindu ritual performed in neighbourhood temples in the Malleswaram 'locality' of Bangalore city against a background of sweeping socio-economic change driven by globalisation. The investigation points to several 'accretions of change' in the embedded and experiential world of popular urban Hinduism. I argue that in the changing, competitive and multi-sectarian field of urban sacred landscapes in India, H…
Some Reflections on Becoming Nuer
“A Tryst With Destiny”
India exhibits great cultural depth and diversity, and it is not possible to produce a simple unitary description of the many facets of India's engagement with globalization pressures. These vary according to region, religion, ethnicity, sect, class, and caste. It is also the case that India contributes to globalization as a ‘cultural emitter’, notably in regard to religious and quasi‐religious philosophies, and as an emerging producer in the int…
Flush with Success: Bathing, Defecation, Worship, and Social Change in South India
Until the 1970s, the focus of the Hindu home was the puja room, or domestic shrine, but during the past 20 years, the focus has shifted to the bathroom. Bathrooms are now the showplaces of the Hindu home where conspicuous consumption and display are the norm, whereas the puja rooms have become increasingly smaller and private. The article discusses the dynamics of this shift in the significance of domestic spaces and the underlying changes in att…
Flush with Success: Bathing, Defecation, Worship, and Social Change in South India
Until the 1970s, the focus of the Hindu home was the puja room, or domestic shrine, but during the past 20 years, the focus has shifted to the bathroom. Bathrooms are now the showplaces of the Hindu home where conspicuous consumption and display are the norm, whereas the puja rooms have become increasingly smaller and private. The article discusses the dynamics of this shift in the significance of domestic spaces and the underlying changes in att…
Everyday Exotic: T ransnational S pace , I dentity and C ontemporary F oodways in B angalore C ity
The relationship between food and identity grows more complex every day as globalization and the accompanying movement of peoples, cultures and capital define new ideological and sensory frontiers. This article examines the changing gastronomic landscape of Bangalore, India, during the past decade of rapid globalization through writings on food in the city. The entry of transnational food companies have moved Bangaloreans away from the tastes and…
Building Faith: Religious Pluralism, Pedagogical Urbanism, and Governance in the Sathya Sai Sacred City
Articles of Faith: Material Piety, Devotional Aesthetics and the Construction of a Moral Economy in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement
Despite a broad and growing devotee base for the transnational Sathya Sai Movement, little research exists on Sai sacred objects: their meanings, their patterns of circulation and their production and exchange in the world of Sai devotion. This article offers a meditation on these Sai sacred artifacts, their visuality, their modes of acquisition by devotees and their multiple biographies in various realms. I analyze the hermeneutics of quiddity t…
Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore
This paper examines the changing nature of Hindu ritual performed in neighbourhood temples in the Malleswaram 'locality' of Bangalore city against a background of sweeping socio-economic change driven by globalisation. The investigation points to several 'accretions of change' in the embedded and experiential world of popular urban Hinduism. I argue that in the changing, competitive and multi-sectarian field of urban sacred landscapes in India, H…
Doubtful Illusions: Magic, Wonder and the Politics of Virtue in the Sathya Sai Movement
This article examines the embattled intersection of magic and rationality in the transnational Sathya Sai movement and positions the magical materializations of the charismatic "godman" Sathya Sai Baba, and the sacred objects thus produced, within the neo-liberal economy. It then explores the tensions between the twin processes of magical production and rational debunking set against the framework of the discourse of nation building in contempora…
“A Tryst With Destiny”
India exhibits great cultural depth and diversity, and it is not possible to produce a simple unitary description of the many facets of India's engagement with globalization pressures. These vary according to region, religion, ethnicity, sect, class, and caste. It is also the case that India contributes to globalization as a ‘cultural emitter’, notably in regard to religious and quasi‐religious philosophies, and as an emerging producer in the int…
Flush with Success: Bathing, Defecation, Worship, and Social Change in South India
Until the 1970s, the focus of the Hindu home was the puja room, or domestic shrine, but during the past 20 years, the focus has shifted to the bathroom. Bathrooms are now the showplaces of the Hindu home where conspicuous consumption and display are the norm, whereas the puja rooms have become increasingly smaller and private. The article discusses the dynamics of this shift in the significance of domestic spaces and the underlying changes in att…
Some Reflections on Becoming Nuer
Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore
This paper examines the changing nature of Hindu ritual performed in neighbourhood temples in the Malleswaram 'locality' of Bangalore city against a background of sweeping socio-economic change driven by globalisation. The investigation points to several 'accretions of change' in the embedded and experiential world of popular urban Hinduism. I argue that in the changing, competitive and multi-sectarian field of urban sacred landscapes in India, H…
Everyday Exotic: T ransnational S pace , I dentity and C ontemporary F oodways in B angalore C ity
The relationship between food and identity grows more complex every day as globalization and the accompanying movement of peoples, cultures and capital define new ideological and sensory frontiers. This article examines the changing gastronomic landscape of Bangalore, India, during the past decade of rapid globalization through writings on food in the city. The entry of transnational food companies have moved Bangaloreans away from the tastes and…
Building Faith: Religious Pluralism, Pedagogical Urbanism, and Governance in the Sathya Sai Sacred City
Articles of Faith: Material Piety, Devotional Aesthetics and the Construction of a Moral Economy in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement
Despite a broad and growing devotee base for the transnational Sathya Sai Movement, little research exists on Sai sacred objects: their meanings, their patterns of circulation and their production and exchange in the world of Sai devotion. This article offers a meditation on these Sai sacred artifacts, their visuality, their modes of acquisition by devotees and their multiple biographies in various realms. I analyze the hermeneutics of quiddity t…
Doubtful Illusions: Magic, Wonder and the Politics of Virtue in the Sathya Sai Movement
This article examines the embattled intersection of magic and rationality in the transnational Sathya Sai movement and positions the magical materializations of the charismatic "godman" Sathya Sai Baba, and the sacred objects thus produced, within the neo-liberal economy. It then explores the tensions between the twin processes of magical production and rational debunking set against the framework of the discourse of nation building in contempora…
Artful Living: New Religious Movements in and of South Asia
“Swiggy it!”
This article is a critical inquiry into the shifting nature of the local and the proximate during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the ubiquitous usage of food delivery software applications, or “gastro apps,” in Bangalore, India. I invite a new way to think about the local—both the lived experience of locality and its mapping in techno-location—in the face of the expanding virtual terrain of the global political economy and the foreclosing social …
Magic in the House of Wisdom
The Endless Story: Myth as Ethics, Ethics as Myth
Toward a Riparian Theo-Ecology: A Meditation on Hinduism and Climate Change
Sociology (10 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Hinduism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)