Amanda J. Lucia, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of California-Riverside Riverside, California 92521 Email: [email protected] Phone: (773) 412-8436 Website: www.amandajeanlucia.com EMPLOYMENT 2015-present Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California-Riverside 2011-15 Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of California-Riverside 2010-11 Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Austin College 2005-06 Visiting Lecturer, Hindi/Urdu, University of Illinois at Chicago 2004-05 Lecturer, Hindi, University of Chicago EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D., History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School Thesis: “Darshan in a Hotel Ballroom: Amritanandamayi Ma’s (Amma’s) Communities of Devotees in the United States” Committee: Wendy Doniger (Chair, History of Religions), Steven Collins (South Asian Languages and Civilizations), Omar McRoberts (Sociology) 2004 M.A., History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School 1998 B.A., Religious Studies, India Studies, Indiana University PUBLICATIONS (Prior to 4/2013, Amanda J. Huffer) Books Lucia, Amanda and Maya Warrier, co-editors. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Independence (1947 – 2017). Vol. VI of A Cultural History of Hinduism. London: Bloomsbury Press, in press. Lucia, Amanda. 2020. White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals, Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed in: High Country News Featured in: Sacred Matters Magazine, Canopy Forum, UC Press blog, The Yogic Studies podcast, New Books in Indian Religions podcast, New Books in Religion podcast Dr. Amanda J. Lucia 1 Lucia, Amanda. Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, in press. Lucia, Amanda. 2014. Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace. Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed in: Journal of Contemporary Religion; Nova Religio; Spirituality & Practice; Choice Connect; Commonground Magazine; The Journal of Religion, The Journal of Hindu Studies Featured in: U.S. Religion Blogspot, New Books in Religion, Asia Research Institute (ARI) Reading Group, Singapore; Spirit Matters Podcasts, Publishers Weekly Awards: Emory Elliott Book Award Winner, UCR 2013-2014; Named one of “The Best Spiritual Books of 2014” (top 50), Spirituality & Practice Articles (Peer Reviewed) Lucia, Amanda. “A Field of Gurus and a Scholarly Field,” Religion Compass (invited), in progress. Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “An Unlikely Tīrtha: Making a Gaudiya Vaishanava Space Sacred among the Mormons.” Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Vol. 27. No. 1: 171-183. Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru Disciple Relationship.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol. 86. No. 4: 953-988. Lucia, Amanda. 2014. “‘Give Me Sevā Overtime:’ Selfless Service and Humanitarianism in Mata Amritanandamayi’s Transnational Guru Movement.” History of Religions. 53: 4: 188-207. Lucia, Amanda. 2014. “Innovative Gurus: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Hinduism.” International Journal of Hindu Studies. 18. 2: 221-263. Huffer, Amanda. 2011. “Backdoor Hinduism: A Recoding in the Language of Spirituality.” Nidan: International Journal for the Study of Hinduism. Vol. 23: 53-71. Huffer, Amanda. 2011. “Hinduism without Religion: Amma’s Movement in America.” CrossCurrents: Special Issue: Religion in Asia Today. Vol. 61. Issue 3: 374-398. Huffer, Amanda. 2010. “Female Immigration as a Catalyst for Ritual Practice: A Social History of Hinduism in the United States.” Journal of Hindu Studies. 3(2): 189-215. Chapters in Edited Volumes (Peer Reviewed) Lucia, Amanda. “Aspiring for Beauty: Aesthetic ideals and Ascetic Practice in Contemporary Spirituality,” In Embodied Reception, edited by Henriette Hanky, Istvan Keul and Knut A. Jacobsen, in progress. Lucia, Amanda. “Nithyananda’s Tangled Webs: Discourses and Accusations in an Internet Empire,” In Gurus and Media, edited by Jacob Copeman, in progress. Lucia, Amanda. “Divided Lines: Ethnic Stratification in Hindu NRMs and Yoga,” In Hindu Diasporas, edited by Knut Axel Jacobsen, in progress. Dr. Amanda J. Lucia 2 Lucia, Amanda. “Building Altars, Making Mandalas, and Festival Introspections on the Yoga Mat.” In Event Horizons: TransFormational Festivals, Movements, and Cultures, edited by Graham St. John and Sarah M. Pike, submitted October 28, 2020. Lucia, Amanda. “Lineages, Emerging Exemplars, and Movements.” In A Cultural History oF Hinduism in the Age of Independence, co-edited by Amanda Lucia and Maya Warrier, Volume 6 of A Cultural History oF Hinduism, edited by Karen Pechilis, in press. Lucia, Amanda. “Economies of Wonder: The Production of Spectacle at the Kumbh Melā,” In An Anthropology oF Wonder, edited by Tulasi Srinivas, SUNY Press, in press. Lucia, Amanda. “Kumbh Mela as Hyperobject.” Routledge Handbook oF Material Religion, edited by S. Brent Plate, Pooyan Arab, and Jennifer Scheper Hughes, in press. Lucia, A. “Gurus and Healing: Amma (Mata Amritanandamyi) at the Intersection of Miracles and Medicine,” in The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health, edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens, Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela Klassen, and Justin B. Stein. London and New York: Routledge, in press. Lucia, Amanda and Michael Alexander, “Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus, and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels.” Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City, edited by Richard Flory and Diane Winston, in press. Lucia, Amanda. 2021. “The Global Manifestation of the Hindu Guru Phenomenon.” pp. 413-427 in Routledge Handbook oF South Asian Religions, edited by Knut Axel Jacobsen. New York: Routledge University Press. Lucia, Amanda. 2021. “Charisma in Hinduism.” pp. 175-185 in Routledge International Handbook oF Charisma, edited by José Pedro Zúquete. New York: Routledge University Press. Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “Saving Yogis: Spiritual Nationalism and the Proselytizing Missions of Global Yoga.” pp. 35-70 in Asian Migrations & Global Religion: Studies on Transnational Religious Movements, edited by Brenda Yeoh and Bernardo Brown, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Lucia, Amanda. “Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) as ‘Religious Genius,’” In Religious Genius, edited by Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Jerusalem, Israel: Elijah Interfaith Institute, in press. Articles (Non-Peer Reviewed) Lucia, Amanda. 2020. “Why are Yogic and Transformational Festivals – from Wanderlust to Burning Man – So White? UC Press Blog. November 25. https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/53445/why-are -yogic-and-transformational-festivals-from-wanderlust-to-burning-man-so-white Lucia, Amanda. 2020. “Religious Exoticism and White Utopias: 7 Questions for Amanda J. Lucia,” Sacred Matters: Religious Currents in Culture. November 1. https://sacredmattersmagazine.com /religious-exoticism-and-white-utopias-7-questions-for-amanda-j-lucia Lucia, Amanda. 2020. “Representation and Whiteness among the ‘Spiritual but not Religious.’” Canopy Forum: On the Interactions oF Law and Religion. September 24. Dr. Amanda J. Lucia 3 https://canopyforum.org/2020/09/24/representation-and-whiteness-among-the-spiritual-but-not- religious Lucia, Amanda. 2020. “The Hindu Guru-Disciple Relationship and the Complications of Consent.” The Revealer, March, Special Issue: Religion and Sexual Abuse. https://therevealer.org/the-guru- disciple-relationship-and-the-complications-of-consent/ Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “Desires for power: sex scandals and their proliferation.” OxFord University Press Blog. December 15. https://blog.oup.com/2018/12/desires-power-scandals-proliferation Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “On the Global Guru Circuit: From India to the West and Back Again.” The Religious Studies Project. November 15. https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2018/11/15/on-the- global-guru-circuit-from-india-to-the-west-and-back-again/ Lucia, Amanda. 2017. “Divali in the White House?” OxFord University Press Blog. October 18. https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/diwali-white-house Lucia, Amanda and Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Jim K. Lee, and S. Romi Mukherjee. 2015. “Take It Outside: Practicing Religion in Public.” BOOM: A Journal oF CaliFornia. December 23. http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2016/01/take-it-outside Lucia, Amanda. 2015. “The Playful Seduction of Colors: Chanting ‘Hare Krishna’ by Accident.” October 24. www.religiousfestivals.ucr.edu Lucia, Amanda. 2015. “Toward a Theory of Festival.” October 24. http://religiousfestivals.ucr.edu Lucia, Amanda. 2015. “How ISKCON took Hinduism to the US Heartland.” Scroll.In. January 16. http://scroll.in/article/700557/How-ISKCON-took-Hinduism-to-the-US-heartland (~23K views, reposted on http://www.utahkrishnas.org/iskcon-took-hinduism-us-heartland) Lucia, Amanda. 2014. “Who Needs a Hug(ging) Saint?” Religion in American History. September 21. http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-needs-hugging-saint.html Lucia, Amanda. 2013. “Religious Genius Project – Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) Discourses” Elijah Interfaith Institute, http://elijah-interfaith.org/sharing-wisdom/religious-genius-project-mata- amritanandamayi-amma-discourses Encyclopedia Entries Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “Hinduism in America.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, (print edition), edited by John Corrigan. New York: Oxford University Press, 105-125. Lucia, Amanda. 2017. “Hinduism in America” The OxFord Encyclopedia of Religion in America, (online edition), edited by John Corrigan, January 26. http://religion.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-