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With trends away from textuality in religious studies, I explore how shared healing rituals reveal negotiated fluid religious identities between living communities of Hindus and Muslims in South India. The emotional core of Sufi saints often propels practitioners out of normativ…

This dissertation examines the effect of religion on the use of military force by states against other states. Despite a growing body of literature on religion and/in international relations, the topic remains under-studied and under-theorized; most of the literature focuses eit…

This research investigates the ways in which the gendered Islamic identities of young American Muslim women are constructed in the United States. In particular, it focuses on the influence that institutions of socialization, including family, Islamic school, and mosque, have on …

This dissertation examines the political culture of the Kashmir Valley from the medieval to the modern periods, with particular emphasis on the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It traces the development of the Kashmiri discourse on identities through an exploration in…