Rowena Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rowena Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rowena |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engagements in Everyday Life: Emerging Forms of Collective Action
This special issue can be located within the renewed and growing body of social science research that critiques the dominant discourses on collective action that privilege organised, visible, and overt political movements. By drawing on political economy, feminist, queer, and ethnographic scholarship, the contributions to this issue highlight the apparently less legible modes of collective action that often unfold in everyday contexts. The six em…
Menstrual Kinship: Bonds of Intimacy and Care Work of Women in Central Kerala
This paper explores menstruation as a domain of kinship within and across three generations of women in central Kerala, India. Based on fieldwork, it shows that certain gendered practices of intimacy and care work in the context of menstruation produce kinship bonds among them, which the authors enunciate as 'menstrual kinship.' In the past, it was shared chiefly among consanguineal and affinal kinswomen and same-caste women, and became conspicuo…
Prayer as an actant: Freedom and sociality in the subject formation of a Catholic nun in Kerala, South India
Going beyond current sociological and anthropological understandings, the article harnesses Latour’s idea of actant to grasp prayer as a comparatively independent entity, analytically cleavable from the nun’s act of praying. Based on an ethnographic study of two indigenous congregations of Catholic nuns in Kerala, India, the article argues that conceptualising prayer as actant takes it out of pure interior spirituality and re-imagines it as a for…
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala
This article illustrates the religious formation and subjectivation of a nun through her everyday life inside the convent. It explains how her experience of calling, structured through institutional subject formation, leads to the fashioning of an ethical subjectivity. A close analysis of a nun’s calling, religious formation, and everyday life, structured through prayer routines, forms of discipline, and, crucially, what is here termed her “spiri…
Called to God: Event, Narration and Subject Formation in the Vocation of a Catholic Nun
The literature emphasizes institutional formation in the process of a young woman becoming a nun or sees her motivations as stemming from expectations of social and economic mobility. This article focuses on the nun's call as event ( Badiou 2001 ; Humphrey 2008 ), revealing its truth to the subject and reconstituting her by her fidelity to it. However, its validation and realization are only accomplished within the structured formation and discip…
‘Private Acts’ and Structural Inequality: Law and Housing Discrimination
This paper focuses on law and housing discrimination within the context of a sociological understanding of the cumulative disadvantageous effects of what are legally considered ‘private acts’. It therefore brings a distinct perspective to the examination of vertical versus horizontal rights. The paper particularly focuses on housing discrimination against Muslims in urban areas against the background of marginalisation, conflict, and violence. It…
Psychometric Properties of the Semantic Differential Scale in Studying Attitudes Toward Menstruation among Roman Catholics in India
Catholics, caste and citizenship: Engagements in civil society
The article connects discussions on civil society with those on citizenship and foregrounds Young’s notion of ‘differentiated citizenship’. Through fieldwork on Catholic lay associations in Mumbai
The Christian Conundrum: Minority Citizens and the Incivility of Caste
The question of what constitutes the content of civility even as we seek to empty it of rigidly conceptualised Western understandings remains important. An interesting possibility is to reanimate the idea of civility with the notion of trust, but that again begs the question: ‘what is trust?’ My thinking on this subject is framed by constitutional values, and from that perspective, I perceive the ‘civility–trust’ dyad as being the social evocatio…
Smell Your Sheep, Shepherd: What Does It Mean to Be Catholic for the Dalit
The anthropology of Christianity has emerged as an exciting field in the last decade or so. Themes of interest for us in India and South Asia in general include issues of caste, conversion and belief, the ideas of sin and morality, individualism, and the like. As part of this growing field, the issue of belief in particular has gained considerable importance. It has been argued that the strict reliance on belief is obstructive and counterproducti…
The Politics of Religion and Faith in South Asia
Jeremiah, Anderson H. M: Community and Worldview among Paraiyars of South India. “Lived” Religion
Anthropos , Seite 289 - 290
Boundary battles: Muslim women and community identity in the aftermath of violence
Negotiating Traditions: Popular Christianity in India
Betwixt Kin and Community: Muslim women and the family in the wake of ethnic strife in western India
Based on ethnographic accounts of Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in three cities of western India, and in particular on the voices of women, this paper draws attention to the impacts of such violence on the domains of kinship and family. It explores the implications of violence for the dislocation and dismembering of families, and the fracturing of educational and occupational aspirations of family members. While the kin group forms the first …
Pathways to heaven: Contesting mainline and fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea
Sociology of Christianity, Conversion and Secularism in India: Some Reflections
Virtual Warfare: The Internet as the New Site for Global Religious Conflict
Christians of India
Introduction From Periphery to Centre Journeying through the Social Worlds of Conversion Patterns of Internal Differentiation Class, Status and Gender Negotiating Traditions Consonance and Conflict Kinship, Marriage and Inheritance The Social and Material Implications of Conversion Cults, Cures and Challenges to the Church Conclusion
Religious conversion in India: Modes, motivations, and meanings
This volume covers conversion in India to Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. It looks at the influences on conversion in a comparative perspective. It seeks to look at the pre-British, British and post-Independence periods. The focus is on social, political and historical aspects of conversion
Religion on the Net: An Analysis of the Global Reach of Hindu Fundamentalism and its Implications for India
Interrogating modernity, gendering 'tradition: Teatr tales from Goa
This paper examines the teatr, a form of popular theatre in contemporary Goa, and the ways in which it engages with the modern, defining and 'fixing', in the same moment, a particular variant of 'tradition'. The plays of this genre revolve around questions of moder nity. In a complex articulation of the realms of the global and the local, modern culture, social mores, politics and economics, tourism and the global media are all represented, queri…
Some Neglected Aspects of the Conversion of Goa: A Socio-Historical Perspective
Les iles de Goa ont ete conquises par les portugais au XVI e siecle. La conversion des habitants au catholicisme et la naissance de l'Inquisition ont produit de nombreux temoignages litteraires. Le travail de conversion est l'oeuvre des ordres religieux (jesuites). L'activite missionnaire dans les territoires portugais est etroitement liee a l'etablissement d'un regime politique et militaire. L'A. tente de situer la conversion des habitants dans …
Boundary battles: Muslim women and community identity in the aftermath of violence
Religion on the Net: An Analysis of the Global Reach of Hindu Fundamentalism and its Implications for India
Negotiating Traditions: Popular Christianity in India
Interrogating modernity, gendering 'tradition: Teatr tales from Goa
This paper examines the teatr, a form of popular theatre in contemporary Goa, and the ways in which it engages with the modern, defining and 'fixing', in the same moment, a particular variant of 'tradition'. The plays of this genre revolve around questions of moder nity. In a complex articulation of the realms of the global and the local, modern culture, social mores, politics and economics, tourism and the global media are all represented, queri…
Some Neglected Aspects of the Conversion of Goa: A Socio-Historical Perspective
Les iles de Goa ont ete conquises par les portugais au XVI e siecle. La conversion des habitants au catholicisme et la naissance de l'Inquisition ont produit de nombreux temoignages litteraires. Le travail de conversion est l'oeuvre des ordres religieux (jesuites). L'activite missionnaire dans les territoires portugais est etroitement liee a l'etablissement d'un regime politique et militaire. L'A. tente de situer la conversion des habitants dans …
Called to God: Event, Narration and Subject Formation in the Vocation of a Catholic Nun
The literature emphasizes institutional formation in the process of a young woman becoming a nun or sees her motivations as stemming from expectations of social and economic mobility. This article focuses on the nun's call as event ( Badiou 2001 ; Humphrey 2008 ), revealing its truth to the subject and reconstituting her by her fidelity to it. However, its validation and realization are only accomplished within the structured formation and discip…
The Christian Conundrum: Minority Citizens and the Incivility of Caste
The question of what constitutes the content of civility even as we seek to empty it of rigidly conceptualised Western understandings remains important. An interesting possibility is to reanimate the idea of civility with the notion of trust, but that again begs the question: ‘what is trust?’ My thinking on this subject is framed by constitutional values, and from that perspective, I perceive the ‘civility–trust’ dyad as being the social evocatio…
Sociology of Christianity, Conversion and Secularism in India: Some Reflections
Virtual Warfare: The Internet as the New Site for Global Religious Conflict
Some Neglected Aspects of the Conversion of Goa: A Socio-Historical Perspective
Les iles de Goa ont ete conquises par les portugais au XVI e siecle. La conversion des habitants au catholicisme et la naissance de l'Inquisition ont produit de nombreux temoignages litteraires. Le travail de conversion est l'oeuvre des ordres religieux (jesuites). L'activite missionnaire dans les territoires portugais est etroitement liee a l'etablissement d'un regime politique et militaire. L'A. tente de situer la conversion des habitants dans …
Interrogating modernity, gendering 'tradition: Teatr tales from Goa
This paper examines the teatr, a form of popular theatre in contemporary Goa, and the ways in which it engages with the modern, defining and 'fixing', in the same moment, a particular variant of 'tradition'. The plays of this genre revolve around questions of moder nity. In a complex articulation of the realms of the global and the local, modern culture, social mores, politics and economics, tourism and the global media are all represented, queri…
Religion on the Net: An Analysis of the Global Reach of Hindu Fundamentalism and its Implications for India
Christians of India
Introduction From Periphery to Centre Journeying through the Social Worlds of Conversion Patterns of Internal Differentiation Class, Status and Gender Negotiating Traditions Consonance and Conflict Kinship, Marriage and Inheritance The Social and Material Implications of Conversion Cults, Cures and Challenges to the Church Conclusion
Religious conversion in India: Modes, motivations, and meanings
This volume covers conversion in India to Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. It looks at the influences on conversion in a comparative perspective. It seeks to look at the pre-British, British and post-Independence periods. The focus is on social, political and historical aspects of conversion
Virtual Warfare: The Internet as the New Site for Global Religious Conflict
Sociology of Christianity, Conversion and Secularism in India: Some Reflections
Pathways to heaven: Contesting mainline and fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea
Betwixt Kin and Community: Muslim women and the family in the wake of ethnic strife in western India
Based on ethnographic accounts of Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in three cities of western India, and in particular on the voices of women, this paper draws attention to the impacts of such violence on the domains of kinship and family. It explores the implications of violence for the dislocation and dismembering of families, and the fracturing of educational and occupational aspirations of family members. While the kin group forms the first …
Negotiating Traditions: Popular Christianity in India
Boundary battles: Muslim women and community identity in the aftermath of violence
Jeremiah, Anderson H. M: Community and Worldview among Paraiyars of South India. “Lived” Religion
Anthropos , Seite 289 - 290
The Politics of Religion and Faith in South Asia
The Christian Conundrum: Minority Citizens and the Incivility of Caste
The question of what constitutes the content of civility even as we seek to empty it of rigidly conceptualised Western understandings remains important. An interesting possibility is to reanimate the idea of civility with the notion of trust, but that again begs the question: ‘what is trust?’ My thinking on this subject is framed by constitutional values, and from that perspective, I perceive the ‘civility–trust’ dyad as being the social evocatio…
Smell Your Sheep, Shepherd: What Does It Mean to Be Catholic for the Dalit
The anthropology of Christianity has emerged as an exciting field in the last decade or so. Themes of interest for us in India and South Asia in general include issues of caste, conversion and belief, the ideas of sin and morality, individualism, and the like. As part of this growing field, the issue of belief in particular has gained considerable importance. It has been argued that the strict reliance on belief is obstructive and counterproducti…
Psychometric Properties of the Semantic Differential Scale in Studying Attitudes Toward Menstruation among Roman Catholics in India
Catholics, caste and citizenship: Engagements in civil society
The article connects discussions on civil society with those on citizenship and foregrounds Young’s notion of ‘differentiated citizenship’. Through fieldwork on Catholic lay associations in Mumbai
‘Private Acts’ and Structural Inequality: Law and Housing Discrimination
This paper focuses on law and housing discrimination within the context of a sociological understanding of the cumulative disadvantageous effects of what are legally considered ‘private acts’. It therefore brings a distinct perspective to the examination of vertical versus horizontal rights. The paper particularly focuses on housing discrimination against Muslims in urban areas against the background of marginalisation, conflict, and violence. It…
Prayer as an actant: Freedom and sociality in the subject formation of a Catholic nun in Kerala, South India
Going beyond current sociological and anthropological understandings, the article harnesses Latour’s idea of actant to grasp prayer as a comparatively independent entity, analytically cleavable from the nun’s act of praying. Based on an ethnographic study of two indigenous congregations of Catholic nuns in Kerala, India, the article argues that conceptualising prayer as actant takes it out of pure interior spirituality and re-imagines it as a for…
In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian-Catholic nuns of Kerala
This article illustrates the religious formation and subjectivation of a nun through her everyday life inside the convent. It explains how her experience of calling, structured through institutional subject formation, leads to the fashioning of an ethical subjectivity. A close analysis of a nun’s calling, religious formation, and everyday life, structured through prayer routines, forms of discipline, and, crucially, what is here termed her “spiri…
Called to God: Event, Narration and Subject Formation in the Vocation of a Catholic Nun
The literature emphasizes institutional formation in the process of a young woman becoming a nun or sees her motivations as stemming from expectations of social and economic mobility. This article focuses on the nun's call as event ( Badiou 2001 ; Humphrey 2008 ), revealing its truth to the subject and reconstituting her by her fidelity to it. However, its validation and realization are only accomplished within the structured formation and discip…
Menstrual Kinship: Bonds of Intimacy and Care Work of Women in Central Kerala
This paper explores menstruation as a domain of kinship within and across three generations of women in central Kerala, India. Based on fieldwork, it shows that certain gendered practices of intimacy and care work in the context of menstruation produce kinship bonds among them, which the authors enunciate as 'menstrual kinship.' In the past, it was shared chiefly among consanguineal and affinal kinswomen and same-caste women, and became conspicuo…
Engagements in Everyday Life: Emerging Forms of Collective Action
This special issue can be located within the renewed and growing body of social science research that critiques the dominant discourses on collective action that privilege organised, visible, and overt political movements. By drawing on political economy, feminist, queer, and ethnographic scholarship, the contributions to this issue highlight the apparently less legible modes of collective action that often unfold in everyday contexts. The six em…
Sociology (18 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)