Talk:Lisa Knight

By Anirudha Patel

Lisa Knight is a Professor of Religion, Asian Studies, and Anthropology and Chair of Asian Studies at Furman University as of July 2023. According to her University Profile, her area of research interest includes South Asia, anthropology, religion, gender, Bauls, exiled secular Bangladeshis, trauma, activism, and feminist ethnography.

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."

Publications related to India

• Knight, Lisa. Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh. Oxford UP, 2014.
• Knight, Lisa. "Women and the Baul Tradition." Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. E. J. Brill Publishers, 2011.
• Knight, Lisa. "Bauls in Conversation: Cultivating Oppositional Ideology." International Journal of Hindu Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, pp. 71-120.
• Knight, Lisa. "Renouncing Expectations: Single Baul Women and the Value of Being a Wife." Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers, edited by Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 191-222.