Carla Bellamy

Carla Bellamy

Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology
Baruch College / City University of New York

I am a cultural anthropologist whose ethnographically-based research focuses on the lived realities behind the increasingly politicized terrain of religious identity in contemporary India and the effects of economic liberalization on caste identity and everyday religious practices and lives.

Selected Publications

As We Love and Fear a Father

As We Love and Fear a Father
Shani, Devotional Religion, and Neoliberalism in Urban North India

Oxford University Press, 2027

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The Powerful Ephemeral

The Powerful Ephemeral
Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place

University of California Press, 2011

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Modern Sufis and the State
2020

Modern Sufis and the State
The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond

Edited by Kathryn Ewing and Rosemary Corbett

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Religious Journeys in India
2018

Religious Journeys in India
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers

Edited by Andrea Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge

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The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia
2015

The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

Edited by Bryan Turner and Oscar Salemink

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Lines in Water
2013

Lines in Water
Religious Boundaries in South Asia

Edited by Eliza Kent and Tazim Kassam

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Recent News

2027

January: "As We Love and Fear A Father: Shani, Devotional Religion, and Neoliberalism in Urban North India" published by Oxford University Press

Contact

Department of Anthropology
Baruch College / City University of New York

carla dot bellamy at baruch dot cuny dot edu