Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Biographic Data
| ID | 573004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Punzo Waghorne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne Punzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Waghorne |
| SIGNATURE | WAGHORNE J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0613-9420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The embodiment of divinity in India
Scholars of religion have long been too outwardly sophisticated to use terms like idolatry, devil worship, or demon possession to describe the multifaceted embodiment of gods in India. Yet in so many introductory texts to Hinduism, mention of these most obvious, even empirically observable, manifestations of religion in India is restricted to a few pages carefully sandwiched between long descriptions of salvation in the Bhagavad Gītā and the refo…
“Saint Above (Beyond) Religion”
A poster designed by the founding guru of the popular Anna Baba Mandir in suburban Chennai depicts Shirdi Sai Baba dressed as a Muslim in front of a mosque, as Venkateswara in front of a temple, and as Santa Claus in front of a cathedral. Interestingly, here Santa, and not Jesus, signals Christianity. Such idiosyncratic portrayals of Baba mark the devotion to the Maharashtrian saint-teacher in Chennai, especially through new gurus who voice Baba'…
Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State: Soul of the Little Red Dot
This book examines spirituality in Singapore, showing how important the city state is for understanding contemporary global configurations of urban space, religion, and spirituality. Joanne Punzo Waghorne highlights how the formal religious spaces—temples, churches, and mosques—have been confined to allotted sites on the map of Singapore, whereas various “spiritual” organizations, particularly of Hindu origins and headed by a guru, still continue…
Ethnographic Turning
Ethnography is not native to my field of History of Religions. Here I reflect on my experience of a slow “ethnographic turn” in this field, where textual studies once dominated. Never trained in ethnographic methods, I recount my moves from experiencing archival work as fieldwork, then to the interviews and observations closer to “real” fieldwork, and finally to a self-centered experiential method that involves being there. At the same time, I tr…
Introduction to Special Issue: Where Class Meets Religion—Examining Middle-Class Religiosity in India
Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Alone Together: Global Gurus, Cosmopolitan Space, and Community
Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
Journal Article Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore Get access Joanne Punzo Waghorne Joanne Punzo Waghorne * *Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 501 Hall of Languages, Syracuse NY 13244-1170, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 82, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 217–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lft1…
The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai
Religion/S Between Covers: Dilemmas of the World Religions Textbook
Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World
From Madras to London, urban middle-class Hindus invest earnings, often derived from the global economy, into the construction or renovation of temples. In both conversation and contention with current theory, this book highlights the Gods, their shrines, and the middle-class people who re-establish them
Moving Comparison out of the Scholar's Laboratory
This essay attempts a brief ethnography of our field impelled by the aftermath of September 11, 2001. My purpose is to ask if the current state of the debate over comparison addresses a growing reality on the ground. Whether or not we engage in comparison, the public does. Whether or not we are willing to place one religion in the context of another, globalization and a network of migration does. On a street corner in Chapel Hill, I overheard an …
The gentrification of the goddess
Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line between Hindu and Christian
The Diaspora of the Gods: Hindu Temples in the New World System 1640-1800
The proliferation of hindu templesnow spread over the North American religious landscape appear at first glance to be part of a new process of globalization for Hinduism in an era of transnational religions. South India, long a bastion of temple culture, is simultaneously in the midst of a new boom in temple construction. The present resurgence of "Hinduism" in north India, steeped in ideology, nonetheless is written in terms of the alleged destr…
The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India
Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshipping Śiva in Medieval India . Richard H. Davis
Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India
The Case of the Missing Autobiography
ogy and religion a far too convenient example by which to study Hindu religious personality. Whenever the question of the coincidence of religion, politics, and personality in India arises, the Mahatma's life dominates the subject. Gandhi's life has, in fact, become the basis for understanding the unity of personal development, religious leadership, and political power (Erikson, 1969; Rudolph). However, Gandhi fortunately provided his investigato…
A Body for God: An Interpretation of the Nature of Myth beyond Structuralism
The gentrification of the goddess
Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line between Hindu and Christian
The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India
The Diaspora of the Gods: Hindu Temples in the New World System 1640-1800
The proliferation of hindu templesnow spread over the North American religious landscape appear at first glance to be part of a new process of globalization for Hinduism in an era of transnational religions. South India, long a bastion of temple culture, is simultaneously in the midst of a new boom in temple construction. The present resurgence of "Hinduism" in north India, steeped in ideology, nonetheless is written in terms of the alleged destr…
Introduction to Special Issue: Where Class Meets Religion—Examining Middle-Class Religiosity in India
Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
Journal Article Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore Get access Joanne Punzo Waghorne Joanne Punzo Waghorne * *Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 501 Hall of Languages, Syracuse NY 13244-1170, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 82, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 217–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lft1…
A Body for God: An Interpretation of the Nature of Myth beyond Structuralism
The Case of the Missing Autobiography
ogy and religion a far too convenient example by which to study Hindu religious personality. Whenever the question of the coincidence of religion, politics, and personality in India arises, the Mahatma's life dominates the subject. Gandhi's life has, in fact, become the basis for understanding the unity of personal development, religious leadership, and political power (Erikson, 1969; Rudolph). However, Gandhi fortunately provided his investigato…
A Body for God: An Interpretation of the Nature of Myth beyond Structuralism
Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India
Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshipping Śiva in Medieval India . Richard H. Davis
The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India
Chariots of the God/s: Riding the Line between Hindu and Christian
The Diaspora of the Gods: Hindu Temples in the New World System 1640-1800
The proliferation of hindu templesnow spread over the North American religious landscape appear at first glance to be part of a new process of globalization for Hinduism in an era of transnational religions. South India, long a bastion of temple culture, is simultaneously in the midst of a new boom in temple construction. The present resurgence of "Hinduism" in north India, steeped in ideology, nonetheless is written in terms of the alleged destr…
The gentrification of the goddess
Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World
From Madras to London, urban middle-class Hindus invest earnings, often derived from the global economy, into the construction or renovation of temples. In both conversation and contention with current theory, this book highlights the Gods, their shrines, and the middle-class people who re-establish them
Moving Comparison out of the Scholar's Laboratory
This essay attempts a brief ethnography of our field impelled by the aftermath of September 11, 2001. My purpose is to ask if the current state of the debate over comparison addresses a growing reality on the ground. Whether or not we engage in comparison, the public does. Whether or not we are willing to place one religion in the context of another, globalization and a network of migration does. On a street corner in Chapel Hill, I overheard an …
Religion/S Between Covers: Dilemmas of the World Religions Textbook
The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai
Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
Journal Article Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore Get access Joanne Punzo Waghorne Joanne Punzo Waghorne * *Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 501 Hall of Languages, Syracuse NY 13244-1170, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 82, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 217–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lft1…
Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Alone Together: Global Gurus, Cosmopolitan Space, and Community
Introduction to Special Issue: Where Class Meets Religion—Examining Middle-Class Religiosity in India
Singapore, Spirituality, and the Space of the State: Soul of the Little Red Dot
This book examines spirituality in Singapore, showing how important the city state is for understanding contemporary global configurations of urban space, religion, and spirituality. Joanne Punzo Waghorne highlights how the formal religious spaces—temples, churches, and mosques—have been confined to allotted sites on the map of Singapore, whereas various “spiritual” organizations, particularly of Hindu origins and headed by a guru, still continue…
Ethnographic Turning
Ethnography is not native to my field of History of Religions. Here I reflect on my experience of a slow “ethnographic turn” in this field, where textual studies once dominated. Never trained in ethnographic methods, I recount my moves from experiencing archival work as fieldwork, then to the interviews and observations closer to “real” fieldwork, and finally to a self-centered experiential method that involves being there. At the same time, I tr…
“Saint Above (Beyond) Religion”
A poster designed by the founding guru of the popular Anna Baba Mandir in suburban Chennai depicts Shirdi Sai Baba dressed as a Muslim in front of a mosque, as Venkateswara in front of a temple, and as Santa Claus in front of a cathedral. Interestingly, here Santa, and not Jesus, signals Christianity. Such idiosyncratic portrayals of Baba mark the devotion to the Maharashtrian saint-teacher in Chennai, especially through new gurus who voice Baba'…
The embodiment of divinity in India
Scholars of religion have long been too outwardly sophisticated to use terms like idolatry, devil worship, or demon possession to describe the multifaceted embodiment of gods in India. Yet in so many introductory texts to Hinduism, mention of these most obvious, even empirically observable, manifestations of religion in India is restricted to a few pages carefully sandwiched between long descriptions of salvation in the Bhagavad Gītā and the refo…
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