Professor Sondra Hausner
Biography:
Sondra Hausner (Princeton AB 1991; Cornell PhD 2002) is a sociocultural anthropologist specialising in South Asian religion and culture. She is the author of Wandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas (2007) and The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London (2016), as well as the editor of Durkheim in Dialogue: A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (2013), among other volumes. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to examine the history of the Hindu nation in India since independence.
Research Interests:
Social and cultural theories of religion; religions and representations of South Asia and the Himalayas; migrant and diaspora religion; gender and identity; ritual experience and practice; Hinduism; the history of nationalism.
General Interests:
Ethnographic methods; comparative methods; public policy.
Links:
https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/people/academic/prof-sondra-hausner
Select Publications
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The Comparative Anthropology of Religion, or The Anthropology of Religion Compared: A Critical Comment
HAUSNER, SMay 2020|Journal article|Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale -
The Division of Labour After Durkheim
HAUSNER, SApril 2019|Journal article|Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology -
Introduction: Performing religion
Blanes, RL, Hausner, SL, Coleman, SSeptember 2018|Journal article|Religion and Society -
Global Nepalis Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora
Gellner, DN, Hausner, SLJune 2018|c-bookIn this volume twenty-one authors address these issues through eighteen detailed case studies that tackle issues of livelihood, identity and belonging, internal conflict, and religious practice, in the UK, the USA, India, Southeast Asia, ...Social Science -
From India to Australia and Back Again: An Alternative Genealogy of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
HAUSNER, SJuly 2017|Journal article|Durkheimian Studies/Etudes durkheimiennes -
Introduction. Society, Morality, Embodiment: Tracing Durkheim’s Legacy
HAUSNER, SJuly 2017|Journal article|Durkheimian Studies/Etudes durkheimiennes -
SPECIAL ISSUE: WHY DID DURKHEIM HAVE TO DIE?
Edited by:HAUSNER, S, Parkin, RJuly 2017|c-book -
Religions, Histories, and Comparisons
Coleman, S, Blanes, RL, Hausner, SLJanuary 2017|Journal article|Religion and Society -
Why did Durkheim Have to Die?
Edited by:HAUSNER, S, Parkin, RJanuary 2017|c-book -
Religion in diaspora: cultures of citizenship (journal special issue)
Garnett, EJ, Hausner, SLEdited by:Garnett, EJDecember 2016|c-book