Amanda Lucia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Lucia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucia |
| SIGNATURE | LUCIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3557-3576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Waging War in Wild Wild Country: Regulating Sex and Nation in Osho’s Rajneeshpuram
The Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP): An Introduction
Imagined futures beyond the Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP)
Making Sacred Space: Altars and Yoga Mats in Transformative Events
This article presents data gleaned from ethnographic research in transformative events, with particular attention to those that incorporate yoga practice as an important educational site for the inscription and dissemination of “spiritual” values and as a pivotal site for testimonials of spiritual “transformation.” It draws from nearly a decade of research and practice in yoga environments in a wide variety of transformative events, including Bha…
Guru Sex
This essay analyzes how the religious desire proximity to that which is believed to be a source of or a conduit for the sacred. Within the South Asian context, this desire manifests socially in devotees’ attempts to touch the guru, to be close to the guru, to eat the guru’s leftover food, to wear what the guru has worn, to sleep where the guru has slept, and so on. The essay also analyzes how disciplinary logics of physicality, what I call haptic…
The contemporary guru field
The guru field-to implement sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's understanding of the concept of "field"-is a term signifying the symbolic sphere of influence, power, and sociality populated by "specialized agents", that is, in this case: charismatic Hindu religious leaders and their movements. Compounded with the term "contemporary," the title of this article suggests a distinctive religious field located in the near present, at once characterized by m…
Megan Goodwin, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 148–150 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.12 Book Review Megan Goodwin, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020) Amanda Lucia University of California, Riverside, USA In Abusing Religion, Megan Goodwin offers an incisive rebuttal to the commonplace popular opi…
Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship
This article analyzes how the religious desire proximity to that which is believed to be a source of or a conduit for the sacred. Within the South Asian context, this desire manifests socially in devotees' attempts to touch the guru, to be close to the guru, to eat the guru's leftover food, to wear what the guru has worn, to sleep where the guru has slept, and so on. This article analyzes how disciplinary logics of physicality, what I call haptic…
Innovative Gurus: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Hinduism
Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship
This article analyzes how the religious desire proximity to that which is believed to be a source of or a conduit for the sacred. Within the South Asian context, this desire manifests socially in devotees' attempts to touch the guru, to be close to the guru, to eat the guru's leftover food, to wear what the guru has worn, to sleep where the guru has slept, and so on. This article analyzes how disciplinary logics of physicality, what I call haptic…
Innovative Gurus: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Hinduism
The contemporary guru field
The guru field-to implement sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's understanding of the concept of "field"-is a term signifying the symbolic sphere of influence, power, and sociality populated by "specialized agents", that is, in this case: charismatic Hindu religious leaders and their movements. Compounded with the term "contemporary," the title of this article suggests a distinctive religious field located in the near present, at once characterized by m…
Innovative Gurus: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Hinduism
Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship
This article analyzes how the religious desire proximity to that which is believed to be a source of or a conduit for the sacred. Within the South Asian context, this desire manifests socially in devotees' attempts to touch the guru, to be close to the guru, to eat the guru's leftover food, to wear what the guru has worn, to sleep where the guru has slept, and so on. This article analyzes how disciplinary logics of physicality, what I call haptic…
Megan Goodwin, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 148–150 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.12 Book Review Megan Goodwin, Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020) Amanda Lucia University of California, Riverside, USA In Abusing Religion, Megan Goodwin offers an incisive rebuttal to the commonplace popular opi…
Guru Sex
This essay analyzes how the religious desire proximity to that which is believed to be a source of or a conduit for the sacred. Within the South Asian context, this desire manifests socially in devotees’ attempts to touch the guru, to be close to the guru, to eat the guru’s leftover food, to wear what the guru has worn, to sleep where the guru has slept, and so on. The essay also analyzes how disciplinary logics of physicality, what I call haptic…
The contemporary guru field
The guru field-to implement sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's understanding of the concept of "field"-is a term signifying the symbolic sphere of influence, power, and sociality populated by "specialized agents", that is, in this case: charismatic Hindu religious leaders and their movements. Compounded with the term "contemporary," the title of this article suggests a distinctive religious field located in the near present, at once characterized by m…
Making Sacred Space: Altars and Yoga Mats in Transformative Events
This article presents data gleaned from ethnographic research in transformative events, with particular attention to those that incorporate yoga practice as an important educational site for the inscription and dissemination of “spiritual” values and as a pivotal site for testimonials of spiritual “transformation.” It draws from nearly a decade of research and practice in yoga environments in a wide variety of transformative events, including Bha…
Waging War in Wild Wild Country: Regulating Sex and Nation in Osho’s Rajneeshpuram
The Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP): An Introduction
Imagined futures beyond the Religion & Sexual Abuse Project (R&SAP)
Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)