Leela Prasad

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Professor of Religious Studies - Duke University

"Asia" in the Making of American Religiosity: A View from North Carolina, co-director

Leela Prasad's primary interests are the anthropology of ethics, with a focus on South Asia, Hindu worlds, gender, colonialism & decoloniality, prison pedagogy & Gandhi, and religion & modernity. Her work is at the intersections of religious studies, anthropology, history and literature. She is a director of the "Asia" in the Making of American Religiosity: A View from North Carolina lab.

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