Dr. Andrew Kunze

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Dr. Andrew Kunze

  • Position: Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Email: akunze@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 127 Shatzel Hall

Fields of Study

  • Asian Religions
  • Asian Studies,
  • International Studies
  • World History

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2021
  • M.A., Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2014
  • B.A., Religious Studies, Wabash College, 2012

Selected Publications

  • 2024, “High-Tech Devotion: Experimental Religion and Media Sevā in Swaminarayan Hinduism,” History of Religions 63, no. 4: 349–382.
  • 2023, “Modi, Biden, and the Surprising Links between Multiculturalism and Islamophobia,” co-authored with Francesca Chubb-Confer, Sightings: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/modi-biden-and-surprising-links-between-multiculturalism-and-islamophobia
  • 2016, “Swaminarayan (BAPS) Identity Formation in Digital Transnationalism,” in Swaminarayan Hinduism: Tradition, Adaptation, Identity, eds. Raymond Brady Williams and Yogi Trivedi (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 402–417.

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