In this article, I explore the development of modern cremation and cremation events in Norway. I focus on the multiple ontologies of cremation events and the relationships between the living mourners and the dead during the gradual transformation of the social person within Christian, secular as well as Hindu traditions in Norway. Within Christian tradition, this is a linear process that I inte...

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Abstract This article provides a textured history of the multivalent term “hindu” over 2,500 years, with goal productively unsettling what we think know. “Hindu” is ubiquitous word in modern times, used by scholars and practitioners dozens languages to denote members religious tradition. But meaning its common use are quite new. Here I trace layered “hindu,” part an array shifting identities ea...

Abstract This article presses on some of the key insights from Mack’s seminal essay Christianity vis-à-vis scholarship a different religion, namely Hinduism. I suggest extensions argument to academic study Hindu traditions, such as identifying harms posed by soft inclusion Christian theology within discipline Religious Studies. argue that this is structural problem in modern academy sidelines s...