Rowena Robinson (Indian Institute of Technology)

submitted: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:44:53 +0530 (IST)

Dr. (Ms) Rowena Robinson
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
Powai, Mumbai, 400076, INDIA

phones: 91-22-576-7371 (office)
	91-22-576-8371 (residence)
fax:    91-22-578-3480
email:  rw@hss.iitb.ernet.in

Description of work:

Research areas: sociology/social anthropology of contemporary India; 
communalism, nationalism, secularism; politics of identity; popular
Christianity in India; Goa: culture, Catholicism, history, society; 
conversion; kinship and family in modern India

Teaching: sociology of religion; sociology of contemporary urban India;
sociology of development; sociological concepts and theory

Recently published: Conversion, continuity and change: lived Christianity
in southern Goa, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1998