Neena Mahadev, Assistant Professor

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Teaching (Spring 2026):

• Religion 113.01, Religion & media Synopsis

  Social sciences 119, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 111.01, VMS 111.01)

• Religion 303.01, Politics of religion in asia Synopsis

  Gray 220, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as AMES 303.01, CULANTH 247.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	2013
M.A.	Johns Hopkins University	2008
M.A.	The University of Chicago	2003
B.A.	Carleton College	2000

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

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. Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka.  Columbia University Press, October, 2023: iix-315.  [abs]
3. 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]
4. 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]