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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Signed a contract with @nyupress.bsky.social today for my new book *Epic Bollywood: Religion and Representation in Modern Indian Cinema*! It is a study of films that draw heavily from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata epic narrative traditions (including K3G).

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The fall term starts today. I’m excited to teach Epic Epics again and my new Religion, Representation, and Avatar course! I’ll be using Avatar to teach about Asian and Indigenous American religious traditions, cultural appropriation, Orientalism, imperialism, racism, and more.

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Ep 328: Dr. Tess Starman joins me to discuss “A Corrupted Faith” — exploring Christian disaffiliation, power, and the rise of #ReligiousNones. Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas @sacredwrites.bsky.social @tessstarman.bsky.social

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Episode 329 with Dr. Swasti Bhattacharya discusses the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram, a spiritually-focused women’s community in rural central India! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas @swastib.bsky.social @sacredwrites.bsky.social

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Episode 327 of Classical Ideas features Dr. Rebecca Wolfe discussing dieting and religious shame! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas Thank you to @rebeccathewolfe.bsky.social and @sacredwrites.bsky.social!

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Ep 326 of Classical Ideas features a conversation with Dr. Celene Ibrahim about fertility, abortion, reproductive care and its relation to Islam! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas @sacredwrites.bsky.social

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Ep 325 of Classical Ideas features Dr. Amanda Hernandez on her academic journey and her 2024 book Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism. 📢 @sacredwrites.bsky.social 👤 Follow: @uhmanduhdawn.bsky.social 🎧 Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas

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Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public scholarship? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, global audience hungry for deeper learning? We’re inviting scholars to give lectures in a live Zoom series hosted by Religion for Breakfast. More here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Guest Lecture Open Call

Be a Guest Lecturer for Religion for Breakfast Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public engagement? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, globally diverse audience that’s hungry...

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Dr. Sohini Sarah Pillai joined me on episode 324 to discuss her project "Epic Bollywood: Religion and Representation in Modern Indian Cinema." Thanks so much to @sohinipillai.bsky.social and @sacredwrites.bsky.social! Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New episode about about cinematic adaptations of Indian epics with @sohinipillai.bsky.social this Thursday, June 12 at Classical Ideas Podcast! We had a lot of fun with this episode! Follow along: linktr.ee/classicalideas

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Greg (A Podcast About Propagandhi/Classical Ideas) @gregsoden.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

EP 323 of Classical Ideas Podcast features a chat with Dr. Lucas Wilson @lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social about the new book "Shame-Sex Attraction: : Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy" from Jessica Kingsley Publishers! Thank you to @sacredwrites.bsky.social Listen: linktr.ee/classicalideas

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Celebrated Star Wars Day today by hosting a dinner for my 2021 Epic Epics first year seminar, which was the first @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social class I ever taught. 9/15 students came, including one who transferred! I’m going to ugly crying HARD during their graduation in June #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We’ve had some good @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social Religion Department sweatshirts before, but this one is my favorite.

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

what a lineup!! honored to be included with so many brilliant thinkers (also if y'all don't know, you need to pick up *Lifeblood of the Parish*, which we just featured on #KeepingIt101, and *Vodou in Vogue*, written by @xroadproj.bsky.social 2025-6 fellow Dr. Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha!!)

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

First day of the @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social spring term! This term I’m teaching Princesses, Demonesses, and Warriors: The Women of the South Asian Epics and the Junior Seminar in Religion. Super excited to read these books with our juniors! @profirmf.bsky.social @mpgphd.bsky.social

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Looking forward to returning to my beloved alma mater today and giving a talk on my new book project for members of the @wellesley.edu community!

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Religion and Computer Science departments hosted an Iftar dinner for Ramadan for K’s Muslim students last night and we had a wonderful time. I love our K College community! @taylorpetrey.bsky.social

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

One of my favorite Kalamazoo College events was last night: the Religion Senior Integrated Project (SIP) Symposium! So proud of all our Religion seniors, especially our three SIP students 🧡 @taylorpetrey.bsky.social

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So excited to be part of the 2025 @sacredwrites.bsky.social spring public scholarship cohort for scholars of religion, gender, and sexuality!

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Happy Major Declaration Day to all the new Religion majors and minors and Film and Media Studies concentrators at K! And to my adorable godson Zephyr who looks a bit scared of his godmother. @taylorpetrey.bsky.social @trisfaulkner.bsky.social

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So happy to be in India again after 5 years with my husband @matthewsutter.bsky.social even if it is just for 6 more days!

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First day of the K College Winter term! Teaching my Star Wars class again and a new Religion/Theatre Studies course called Dance, Drama, and Devotion in South Asia!

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

My department is hiring a Lecturer in Religions of Premodern South Asia and we’re working with several programs at the university on longer-term plans for a permanent position. This is renewable up to 3 years. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

One can never have too many Star Wars ugly Christmas sweaters.

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today is the last day of OUP’s #SBLAAR24 sale! You can purchase #KrishnasMahabharatas at 40% off until the end of today here: oxford.ly/4gh7mcQ

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I shouldn’t be surprised because Arun, John, Aalekhya, Sowparnika, and Emilia are incredible scholars, but our “Retelling Hindu Narratives Outside the Epics” panel was the bee’s knees. Organizing/presiding at a panel and getting to listen to amazing papers by amazing people is lit. #AARSBL24 #AAR

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Obligatory book at exhibit hall photo at AAR/SBL! PS Krishna’s Mahabharatas is 40% off at the Oxford University Press website with the code EXAAR24! #AARSBL24 #SBLAAR24 #SBLAAR #AARSBL

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We're all set up and ready to meet you at #AAR & #SBL in San Diego! Visit us at booth 404 in the exhibit hall and save 30% on all orders!

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Friends attending #AARSBL24: come check out the panels and roundtables for the Hinduism Unit this year! The first ones start tomorrow!

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

okay, the second starter pack i want to create is folks attending + presenting + advertising panels at #SBLAAR24. like this skeet if, and only if, that’s you. we’ll get a good running commentary going in anticipation of and during the conference! please reskeet to signal boost.

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hope you’ll join @dillivali.bsky.social, Steven Lindquist, and Anna Seastrand and I at the New Books in Hindu Studies roundtable at #AARSBL24 on Sunday!

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I wrote a review of Singham Again for The Polis Project a few weeks ago. So far, this film is the highest grossing Hindi movie of 2024... www.thepolisproject.com/read/singham...

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Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Apologies for not writing up a more formal review to publish in some online paper or magazine, but I just got home and I have to say something right now. I’m going to be thinking about Heretic Movie for a long, long time. 1/

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 16/11/2024

I made a feed for #SBL and #AAR discussion ahead of the annual meeting next week. It grabs a bunch of related tags and gives us all one place to look. Check it out and share it! Tags are not case-sensitive, including: #sbl #aar #aarsbl #sblaar #aarsbl24 #sblaar24

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Friends going to AAR: I’m honored that Krishna’s Mahabharatas will be discussed alongside the incredible new books of Steven Lindquist, Anna Seastrand, and Divya Cherian at the New Books in Hindu Studies roundtable on Sunday, November 24th from 9:00-10:30 AM. I hope you can join us!

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 13/11/2024

"Singham Again therefore presents the events of Valmiki’s Ramayana as historical facts rather than mythological stories. This is very much in line with the message of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign." from @sohinipillai.bsky.social's article. #DesiWatch + #IndianPolitics

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How Singham Again Retells The Ramayana In Troubling Ways

Singham Again retells the Ramayana in concerning and dangerous ways, especially considering how the Hindu Right has politicized Rama’s story in recent history.

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

I WROTE A BOOK! E-book versions of Krishna’s Mahabharatas (AAR Religion in Translation Series at Oxford University Press) are available now and the book will be available in print very soon. Leia and I hope some of you will want to read it!

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

So excited to hold The Epic World! I’m grateful to Pam Lothspeich for inviting me to be a part of this. Also, I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that a book about epics from a press like Routledge has an essay about the Tamil epic, the Cilappatikaram, by my dear friend Morgan!

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