Publications

Academic publications

Sen, Moumita 2021. ‘Can Didi Truly Become Durgā? The Riddle of the Two Goddesses’ in Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls and Darbārs, eds. Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayana and Astrid Zotter, SUNY University Press.

Einarsen, Silje L. 2021. Book review. ‘Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold’, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 36 (1), p. 188-190. (Link)

Sen, Moumita 2021. ‘Land-grabbing deities: the politics of public space in a multi-religious neighbourhood’ in Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia, ed. Istvan Keul, Routledge.

Sen, Moumita 2020. Book review. ‘Tenhunen, Sirpa 2018. A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India’, in Journal of South Asian Development 15 (1), p. 117-120.

Sen, Moumita 2019. ‘Durga did not kill Mahishasur: Hindus, Adivasis and Hindutva’, in Outrage: the rise of religious offence in South Asia, ed. Kathinka Frøystad, Arild E. Ruud, Paul Rollier, UCL Press. (Link)

Sen, Moumita 2019. ‘The Mahishasur Movement Online: A Precarious Network of Demon-Followers’, in Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, March special issue on “Religious Controversies”. (Link)

Sen, Moumita 2018. ‘From the Great Goddess to Everywoman: Western Naturalism and the Durga murti in West Bengal’ in Technology and Religion in Historical and Contemporary South Asia: Spaces, Practices and Authorities, eds. Knut Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, Routledge. (Link)

Sen, Moumita 2018. ‘Introduction’ (with Caleb Simmons) to Nine Nights of the Goddess: Navarātri, Navarātra and Durgāpūjā in South Asia and Beyond, SUNY University Press.

Sen, Moumita 2018. ‘Politics, Art and Religion in the Durga Puja of Bengal’, in Nine Nights of the Goddess: Navarātri, Navarātra and Durgāpūjā in South Asia and Beyond, eds. Hillary Rodrigues, Moumita Sen and Caleb Simmons, SUNY University Press. (Link)

Einarsen, Silje L. 2018. ‘Navarātri in Benares: Narrative Structures and Social Realities’ in Nine Nights of the Goddess: Navarātri, Navarātra and Durgāpūjā in South Asia and Beyond , eds. Hillary Rodrigues, Moumita Sen and Caleb Simmons, SUNY University Press. (Link)

Academic Talks

Samuelsen, Guro W. 2021. ‘The Mythopolitics of Narendra Modi’. Paper presented at the Messianic Leadership across the World conference, May 19-June 2.

Einarsen, Silje Lyngar 2020. ‘Sanskrit Memory Politics’. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Swedish South Asian Studies Network, December 9-10.

Sen, Moumita 2020. ‘From Demon to Deity: The Changing Iconography of Mahishasur’. Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Conference, December 1.