Talk:Carola Lorea

By Anirudha patel

Carola Lorea is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), as of July 2023. Her research includes oral traditions and popular religious movements in South Asia, particularly eastern India, Bangladesh, and the Andaman Islands.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of July 2023.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Books and Edited Volumes

• Lorea, Carola E. "Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation." Leiden: Brill, 2016.

• Lorea, Carola E., and Parthapratim C., eds. and trans. "Orchidea Barberini nei panni di Banalata Sen: Jibananda Dase la poesia bengali al di là di Tagore [Jibanananda Das and Bengali poetry beyond Tagore; original title Banalata Sen, translated from Bengali]." Kolkata: N.E. Publishers, 2012.

• Lorea, Carola E., and Rohit Singh, eds. "The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions." New York, SUNY, 2022.

Articles

• Lorea, Carola E. "Sonic Matters: Singing as Method and the Epistemology of Singing across Bengali Esoteric Lineages." American Anthropologist, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13721.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Contesting Multiple Borders: Bricolage Thinking and Matua Narratives on the Andaman Islands." Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2020.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Migrating Repertoires in the Middle of the Ocean: A Little-known History of Displacement and Bengali Identity." Rivista degli Studi Orientali (RSO), vol. 91, Special Section 2 De-Centering Dominant Narratives in India: 51-66, 2018.

• Lorea Carola E. "I Am Afraid of Telling You This, Lest You’d Be Scared Shitless!: The Myth of Secrecy and the Study of the Esoteric Traditions of Bengal." Religions, vol. 9, no. 6, 172: 1-24, 2018, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9060172.

• Lorea Carola E. "Sectarian Scissions, Vaishnava Deviancy, and Trajectories of Oral Literature: A Virtual Dialogue between the Bengali Songs of Bhaktivinod Thakur (1838-1914) and Duddu Shah (1841-1911)." Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien, Band 35: 83-114, 2018.

• Zami Tahmidal and Carola E. Lorea. "Inter-religious Encounter and Proselytism in Pre-Mughal Bengal: An Analysis of the Report by the Jesuit Father Nicolas Pimenta." Indian Historical Review, vol. 43, no. 2: 234-369, 2016.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Territory, Loss and Identity: The Songs of a Displaced Guru and His Performers." Journal of Folklore and Folkloristics, vol. 7, no. 2: 50-68, 2014.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Playing the Football of Love on the Field of the Body: The Contemporary Repertoire of Baul Songs." Journal of Religion and the Arts, vol. 17, no. 4: 416-451, 2013.

Chapters in Edited Books

• Lorea, Carola E. "Singing Tantra: Aural Media and Sonic Soteriology in Bengali Esoteric Lineages." Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies, edited by Glen Hayes and Richard Payne, 2022.

• Lorea Carola E. and Rohit Singh. “Introduction: Tantric traditions as lived religion: Re-imagining Tantra with ethnography.” The Ethnography of Tantra, SUNY press, 2022.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Religion, Caste and Displacement: The Matua Community." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Edited by Willem van Schendel, 2020, https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-280.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Orality, Aura and Authenticity: Troubled Texts in the Performances of Bauls and Fakirs." In Bengali Oral Traditions, edited by Malini Bhattacharya and Raman Siva Kumar, 2019.

• Lorea, Carola E. "Bengali Bauls and Fakirs in the Field: Fieldnotes of a Fieldworker." In Home and the World: South Asia in Transition, edited by Debjani Sengupta and Samrat Sengupta, 2016.