Publications of Neena Mahadev    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Mahadev, N. Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka.  Columbia University Press, October, 2023: iix-315.  [abs]

Papers Published

1. Mahadev, N. "The Charism of the Christian Left Dissidence as Habit in a Time of Bi-polar Theopolitics." Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 40:1 (March, 2022): 84-103. [doi]  [abs]
2. Lorea, CE; Mahadev, N; Lang, N; Chen, N. "Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance." Religion 52:2 (January, 2022): 177-198. [doi]  [abs]
3. Mahadev, N. "Karma and grace: Rivalrous reckonings of fortune and misfortune." Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory 9:2 (September, 2019): 421-438. [doi]  [abs]
4. Walton, JF; Mahadev, N. "Introduction: Religious plurality, interreligious pluralism, and spatialities of religious difference." Religion and Society 10:1 (January, 2019): 81-91. [doi]  [abs]
5. Mahadev, N. "Post-war blood: Sacrifice, anti-sacrifice, and the rearticulations of conflict in Sri Lanka." Religion and Society 10:1 (January, 2019): 130-150. [doi]  [abs]
6. Mahadev, N. "Economies of conversion and ontologies of religious difference Buddhism, Christianity, and adversarial political perception in Sri Lanka." Current Anthropology 59:6 (December, 2018): 665-690. [doi]  [abs]
7. Mahadev, N. "The maverick dialogics of religious rivalry in Sri Lanka: Inspiration and contestation in a new messianic Buddhist movement." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22:1 (March, 2016): 127-147. [doi]  [abs]

Articles in a Collection

1. Mahadev, N. "Buddhist “Magic” and Buddhist Modernism: Karma, Relatedness, and Hungry Ghosts in Cross-Cultural Perspective." The Oxford Handbook of Lived Buddhism. Oxford University Press, October, 2025. [doi]  [abs]
2. Mahadev, N. "Vijaya and Kuweni Retold: Sri Lanka's Post-war Iconography as an Affirmation of Inter-Community Mixing." Multi-religiosity in Contemporary Sri Lanka. Routledge, August, 2021, 86-98. [doi]
3. Mahadev, N. "Secularism and religious modernity in Sri Lanka and Singapore: Trans-regional revivalism considered." Secular in South East and Southeast Asia. June, 2018, 287-311. [doi]
4. Mahadev, N. "Conversion and anti-conversion in contemporary Sri Lanka: Pentecostal Christian Evangelism and Theravada Buddhist views on the ethics of religious attraction." Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia. January, 2014, 211-235. [doi]

Books in Progress