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Dheepa Sundaram

Dheepa Sundaram

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Denver, Colorado, United States

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Dheepa Sundaram (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver, which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations. Her scholarship examines social media hate politics, religious nationalism, and the formation of Hindu religious publics through online platforms and emerging technologies. Her current monograph project, Globalizing Dharma: The Making of a Global Hindu Brand, examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a new, digital canon for Hindu religious praxis, effectively branding religious identities and marketing caste-privileged religious norms as a default, cosmopolitan Hinduism that anchors the Hindu nationalist political project. She is also a contributor for Religion News Service on Hindu perspectives, a founding member of the South Asia Scholar Activist Collective (SASAC), a trainer for Sacred Writes, and coauthor of the Hindutva Harassment Field Manual.

Area of Expertise

  • Government, Social Sector & Education
  • Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Social Media Research
  • Religious Nationalism
  • Digital Religion
  • Hate Politics
  • Ritual and Performance Studies

Dheepa Sundaram

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Denver, Colorado, United States

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