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About Irene Promodh
Irene Promodh is a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on mobile forms of Christianity across the Indian Ocean, particularly among migrant communities circulating between their places of work in the Persian Gulf and their home societies in South India. She is especially interested in questions of caste, denominational difference, and religious conversion among diasporic groups in the Indian Ocean world. She has also worked on the sonic cultures of the Indian Ocean and the migrant media practices of South Indians living in the Persian Gulf. Her work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and City & Society, with a forthcoming article on pandemic theologies in the Journal of Arabian Studies.NBN Episodes hosted by Irene:
October 12, 2022
Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory
Nissim Mannathukkaren's book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021) is a thema…
May 9, 2022
The Sound of Salvation
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of th…
February 23, 2022
Between Dreams and Ghosts
More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal …
January 11, 2022
Butinage
Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility (U Toronto Press, 2021) exp…
November 9, 2021
The Charismatic Gymnasium
In The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 2021), Maria José de Abreu examin…
October 4, 2021
Indonesians and Their Arab World
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021) teases out the c…