Kathinka Frøystad
Biographic Data
| ID | 90378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathinka Frøystad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathinka |
| FAMILY NAME | Frøystad |
| SIGNATURE | FRØYSTAD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | PRIO |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4293-1148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Når dører lukkes: Om akademisk frihet og antropologi
I denne artikkelen drøfter jeg hvordan politiske restriksjoner påvirker antropologiske og øvrige akademiske praksiser, hva både temavalg, feltarbeid og offentlig formidling angår. Med India som hovedcase eksemplifiserer jeg hvordan akademisk frihet er blitt begrenset det siste tiåret, og illustrerer begrensningenes ringvirkninger både innenfor og utenfor India – også i Norge. Ringvirkningene inkluderer økt preferanse for «ufarlige» eller statsven…
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The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
This Companion offers a global, comparative history of the interplay between religion and war from ancient times to the present. Moving beyond sensationalist theories that seek to explain why 'religion causes war,' the volume takes a thoughtful look at the connection between religion and war through a variety of lenses - historical, literary, and sociological-as well as the particular features of religious war. The twenty-three carefully nuanced …
Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and Its Containment
Raising alarm or swallowing hurt? The case of a broken deity tile in Kanpur
This article considers the non-aggressive aftermath of an alleged iconoclasm in a residential neighbourhood of Kanpur. The ‘iconoclasts’ were recent converts to Christianity who were attempting to mark their departure from Hinduism by dismantling the deity tiles on their house. Despite the indignation this caused among their Hindu neighbours, not much ensued. While the lack of escalation may be easy to explain given the local circumstances, this …
Through the Looking Glass
In spite of Modi’s promise of good days (acche din) in 2014, many Indians still struggle with unemployment, low income, poor health and other difficulties. Though some problems eventually find solutions and middle-class metropolitans increasingly seek help from gurus and psychologists, long-term misfortune and disturbances are still frequently attributed to black magic or possession. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork in Kanpur and Bareilly, th…
Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia
Introduction: Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts
In this introduction, we situate the special section, ‘Containing Religious Offence beyond the Courts’, within and beyond existing scholarship on religious offence in South Asia. Much of this scholarship focuses on the unintended effects of blasphemy laws, showing, for instance, that laws presumably intended to promote religious tolerance end up informing, if not encouraging, disputes around religious sensitivities. But while debates about the ef…
Swallowing Hurt: Conversion, Broken Deity Tiles and Reluctant Forgiveness in Kanpur
This article considers the non-aggressive aftermath of an alleged iconoclasm in a residential neighbourhood of Kanpur. The ‘iconoclasts’ were recent converts to Christianity who were attempting to mark their departure from Hinduism by dismantling the deity tiles on their house. Despite the indignation this caused among their Hindu neighbours, not much ensued. While the lack of escalation may be easy to explain given the local circumstances, this …
Sound Biting Conspiracy: "From India with "Love Jihad
Since 2013, India has seen a remarkable growth of a conspiracy theory known as "love jihad", which holds that Muslim men conspire to lure Hindu women for marriage to alter India's religious demography as part of a political takeover strategy. While earlier scholarship on "love jihad" emphasizes the Hindu nationalist propagation of this conspiracy theory, this article pays equal attention to its appeal among conservative Hindus. Making its point o…
Worship and the virus in Hindu India: Contested innovation, polarization, uneven digital acceleration
The religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hindu India were manifold and, at times, publicly contested, which raises the question of which societal differences became visible and were augmented as the pandemic unfolded. Based on observations mainly from the first coronavirus wave in 2020, this article argues that the limited religious innovation that ensued gave rise to a lively public debate that revealed marked differences within the H…
Failing the third toilet test: Reflections on fieldwork, gender and Indian loos
This article reexamines the long-standing corridor topic of toilet facilities in anthropological fieldwork, arguing that their condition has stronger methodological implications than previously acknowledged. Drawing on personal experiences from three successive fieldworks in one of India's poorest states - Uttar Pradesh - it reflects on the importance of gender, age, and prior experience with unfamiliar sanitary facilities in shaping our adjustme…
Affective digital images: Shiva in the Kaaba and the smartphone revolution
Outrage
His research and teaching focuses on cultural and postcolonial theory, the politics of religious
Naturalisering på langs og tvers: Begrepshistorisk refleksjon med storm i kastene
Marine Carrin og Harald Tambs-Lyche: An encounter of peripheries: Santals, missionaries, and their changing world, 1867–1900
Divine Intersections: Hindu Ritual and the Incorporation of Religious Others
This article throws the study of multireligious sociality in Western contexts into sharp relief by examining the case of India. Much of the current scholarship of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism tends to assume that religious beliefs, practices and spaces make the respective religious communities close entirely in upon themselves. While this assumption may hold true for most of the Western settings we study, it does not necessarily give an a…
Sindre Bangstad: Sekularismens ansikter
Roping Outsiders In
This article examines the pursuit of scientific legitimacy in spiritual movements that target the urban middle class in India. Based on fieldwork in a non-congregational ashram in Haridwar and six spiritual movements in Delhi that teach meditation of some kind—including Art of Living, Golden Age Foundation and Healing Rhythms—this article makes two points. First, participants articulate spiritual appeals to science in highly different ways, each …
The Return Path: Anthropology of a Western Yogi
Veldig vitenskapelig. Vitenskapelige legitimeringsformer i den indiske New Age-bevegelsen
Master-Servant relations and the domestic reproduction of caste in Northern India
The relationship between upper or middle class families and their domestic servants is an understudied subject matter in the anthropology of India. This article argues that master-servant relations are more significant for the domestic reproduction of inequality than hitherto acknowledged. Most earlier studies have discussed this inequality in terms of class, but this article argues that master-servant relations also are flavoured by caste. The e…
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Master-Servant relations and the domestic reproduction of caste in Northern India
The relationship between upper or middle class families and their domestic servants is an understudied subject matter in the anthropology of India. This article argues that master-servant relations are more significant for the domestic reproduction of inequality than hitherto acknowledged. Most earlier studies have discussed this inequality in terms of class, but this article argues that master-servant relations also are flavoured by caste. The e…
Sound Biting Conspiracy: "From India with "Love Jihad
Since 2013, India has seen a remarkable growth of a conspiracy theory known as "love jihad", which holds that Muslim men conspire to lure Hindu women for marriage to alter India's religious demography as part of a political takeover strategy. While earlier scholarship on "love jihad" emphasizes the Hindu nationalist propagation of this conspiracy theory, this article pays equal attention to its appeal among conservative Hindus. Making its point o…
Divine Intersections: Hindu Ritual and the Incorporation of Religious Others
This article throws the study of multireligious sociality in Western contexts into sharp relief by examining the case of India. Much of the current scholarship of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism tends to assume that religious beliefs, practices and spaces make the respective religious communities close entirely in upon themselves. While this assumption may hold true for most of the Western settings we study, it does not necessarily give an a…
Roping Outsiders In
This article examines the pursuit of scientific legitimacy in spiritual movements that target the urban middle class in India. Based on fieldwork in a non-congregational ashram in Haridwar and six spiritual movements in Delhi that teach meditation of some kind—including Art of Living, Golden Age Foundation and Healing Rhythms—this article makes two points. First, participants articulate spiritual appeals to science in highly different ways, each …
Redaksjonelt
Failing the third toilet test: Reflections on fieldwork, gender and Indian loos
This article reexamines the long-standing corridor topic of toilet facilities in anthropological fieldwork, arguing that their condition has stronger methodological implications than previously acknowledged. Drawing on personal experiences from three successive fieldworks in one of India's poorest states - Uttar Pradesh - it reflects on the importance of gender, age, and prior experience with unfamiliar sanitary facilities in shaping our adjustme…
Naturalisering på langs og tvers: Begrepshistorisk refleksjon med storm i kastene
Worship and the virus in Hindu India: Contested innovation, polarization, uneven digital acceleration
The religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hindu India were manifold and, at times, publicly contested, which raises the question of which societal differences became visible and were augmented as the pandemic unfolded. Based on observations mainly from the first coronavirus wave in 2020, this article argues that the limited religious innovation that ensued gave rise to a lively public debate that revealed marked differences within the H…
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Editors' Comments
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Master-Servant relations and the domestic reproduction of caste in Northern India
The relationship between upper or middle class families and their domestic servants is an understudied subject matter in the anthropology of India. This article argues that master-servant relations are more significant for the domestic reproduction of inequality than hitherto acknowledged. Most earlier studies have discussed this inequality in terms of class, but this article argues that master-servant relations also are flavoured by caste. The e…
Veldig vitenskapelig. Vitenskapelige legitimeringsformer i den indiske New Age-bevegelsen
The Return Path: Anthropology of a Western Yogi
Sindre Bangstad: Sekularismens ansikter
Roping Outsiders In
This article examines the pursuit of scientific legitimacy in spiritual movements that target the urban middle class in India. Based on fieldwork in a non-congregational ashram in Haridwar and six spiritual movements in Delhi that teach meditation of some kind—including Art of Living, Golden Age Foundation and Healing Rhythms—this article makes two points. First, participants articulate spiritual appeals to science in highly different ways, each …
Marine Carrin og Harald Tambs-Lyche: An encounter of peripheries: Santals, missionaries, and their changing world, 1867–1900
Divine Intersections: Hindu Ritual and the Incorporation of Religious Others
This article throws the study of multireligious sociality in Western contexts into sharp relief by examining the case of India. Much of the current scholarship of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism tends to assume that religious beliefs, practices and spaces make the respective religious communities close entirely in upon themselves. While this assumption may hold true for most of the Western settings we study, it does not necessarily give an a…
Naturalisering på langs og tvers: Begrepshistorisk refleksjon med storm i kastene
Affective digital images: Shiva in the Kaaba and the smartphone revolution
Outrage
His research and teaching focuses on cultural and postcolonial theory, the politics of religious
Failing the third toilet test: Reflections on fieldwork, gender and Indian loos
This article reexamines the long-standing corridor topic of toilet facilities in anthropological fieldwork, arguing that their condition has stronger methodological implications than previously acknowledged. Drawing on personal experiences from three successive fieldworks in one of India's poorest states - Uttar Pradesh - it reflects on the importance of gender, age, and prior experience with unfamiliar sanitary facilities in shaping our adjustme…
Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia
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