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ALEXANDER ROCKLIN
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Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

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“‘A Hindu is white although he is black’: Hindu Alterity and the Performativity of Religion and Race between the US and the Caribbean,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 58, no. 1, January 2016.
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​ “Obeah and the Politics of Religion’s Making and Unmaking in Colonial Trinidad.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. vol. 83, no. 3, Sept. 2015.
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“Imagining Religions in a Trinidad Village: The Africanity of the Spiritual Baptist Movement and the Politics of Comparing Religions.” New West Indian Guide, vol. 86 no. 1 & 2 (2012)

Other Publications

    Invited Contributions:
        “Diaspora in Trinidad.” Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
        “Hinduism in Trinidad and Tobago,” Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, Ed. Henri Gooren. Springer, 2015.
    Articles:
        “Pninelungenlied: The Siegfried Myth in Nabokov's Pnin.” The Nabokovian 50 (Spring 2003).
    Book Reviews:
        N. Fadeke Castor. Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad. New West Indian Guide, 93: 1&2 (2019).
        C. S. Adcock's The Limits of Tolerance: Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom, History of Religions, 54: 02 (November 2014).
    Manuscripts under Review and in Preparation:
        Becoming Hindu: The Imposture of Religion and the Power of India in the Afro Atlantic World, (Manuscript in preparation).
        “African Hindus and the Witchcraft of Hindu Religion in the Caribbean,” (Article in preparation for special issue of The Journal of Religion).
    Online Publications:
        “The intimacies of ‘religion,’” Religion Bulletin, Bulletin for the Study of Religion,  (March 21, 2016).
        “Haunting Violence: Obeah and the Management of the Living and the Dead in Colonial Trinidad.” Religion and Culture Web Forum. University of
        Chicago, (November, 2013). Responses by Paul Christopher Johnson and Aisha Khan.
        “Religion Beyond the Pale.” Sightings, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago (January 13, 2013).
 
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