Drew Thomases's guest appearances

Drew Thomases

New Books in Indian Religions

New Books in Anthropology

New Books in South Asian Studies

New Books Network

Center for South Asia Lecture Series Podcast

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Nupurnima Yadav

John Stratton Hawley

Peter Gottschalk

Suraj Yengde

Angela Rudert

Renny Thomas

Matt Cook

Aditya Pratap Deo

Brian Greene

Jason Keith

Harper Collins

Phillipa Chong

Mani Rao

William Elison

Caleb Simmons

OwlTail

In Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar.While the town consists of 20,000 residents, it boasts two million visitors annually. Sacred to the creator god, Brahma, Pushkar is understood as heaven on earth – a heaven heavily marked by tourism and globalization. You can learn about the lives of the residents of Pushkar through Thomases fascinating ethnographic fieldwork.Drew Thomases is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.For information about your host Raj Balkaran’s background, see https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Guest-God-Pilgrimage-Tourism-Paradise/dp/0190883553/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India</a> (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar.While the town consists of 20,000 residents, it boasts two million visitors annually. Sacred to the creator god, Brahma, Pushkar is understood as heaven on earth – a heaven heavily marked by tourism and globalization. You can learn about the lives of the residents of Pushkar through Thomases fascinating ethnographic fieldwork.<a href="https://religion.sdsu.edu/faculty/bios/thomases.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drew Thomases</a> is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.For information about your host Raj Balkaran’s background, see <a href="https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies</a>

Drew Thomases, "Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India" (Oxford UP, 2019)

In Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar.While the town consists of 20,000 residents, it boasts two million visitors annually. Sacred to the creator god, Brahma, Pushkar is understood as heaven on earth – a heaven heavily marked by tourism and globalization. You can learn about the lives of the residents of Pushkar through Thomases fascinating ethnographic fieldwork.Drew Thomases is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.For information about your host Raj Balkaran’s background, see https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Guest-God-Pilgrimage-Tourism-Paradise/dp/0190883553/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India</a> (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar.While the town consists of 20,000 residents, it boasts two million visitors annually. Sacred to the creator god, Brahma, Pushkar is understood as heaven on earth – a heaven heavily marked by tourism and globalization. You can learn about the lives of the residents of Pushkar through Thomases fascinating ethnographic fieldwork.<a href="https://religion.sdsu.edu/faculty/bios/thomases.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drew Thomases</a> is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.For information about your host Raj Balkaran’s background, see <a href="https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology</a>

In Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar.While the town consists of 20,000 residents, it boasts two million visitors annually. Sacred to the creator god, Brahma, Pushkar is understood as heaven on earth – a heaven heavily marked by tourism and globalization. You can learn about the lives of the residents of Pushkar through Thomases fascinating ethnographic fieldwork.Drew Thomases is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.For information about your host Raj Balkaran’s background, see https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions

In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Guest-God-Pilgrimage-Tourism-Paradise/dp/0190883553/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India</a> (Oxford University Press, 2019) Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar.While the town consists of 20,000 residents, it boasts two million visitors annually. Sacred to the creator god, Brahma, Pushkar is understood as heaven on earth – a heaven heavily marked by tourism and globalization. You can learn about the lives of the residents of Pushkar through Thomases fascinating ethnographic fieldwork.<a href="https://religion.sdsu.edu/faculty/bios/thomases.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drew Thomases</a> is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.For information about your host Raj Balkaran’s background, see <a href="https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rajbalkaran.com/scholarship</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions</a>