Podcasts about global embrace

Amanda Lucia is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her research engages the global exportation, appropriation, and circulation of Hinduism, with designated attention to global guru movements. On her previous visit to Spirit Matters we discussed her book about Mata Amritanandamayi, Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace. On this program we focused on her new book, White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals, which analyzes yoga practice and the intersections of whiteness and religious exoticism among the “spiritual, but not religious” (SBNR) at global transformational festivals such as such as Bhakti Fest, Wanderlust, Lightning in a Bottle, and Burning Man. The author of numerous scholarly articles, she is currently crafting a body of research on media representations of gurus, with particular attention to scandal. Learn more about Amanda Lucia here: https://www.amandajeanlucia.com/about

Orgasmic Embodiment With Sayler  Have you gotten to the point that you are embracing embodiment? Have you been able to at least begin to appreciate your embodiment? Do you have a sense of what you bring to this planet earth playground? And are you willing to allow them to be a contribution to your life? Or even, to the world? And to the earth?  Get ready to dive into embracing more of You, as Sayler welcomes Keisha Clark to the show for this conversation. Keisha Clark is an avid seeker and lover of all things energy.  She has worked professionally in the healing arts for over twenty years.   As an Intuitive Living Coach, Keisha now brings her gifts, experiences and expertise together to be a facilitator and teacher for people who are ready to tap into their own unique intuitive abilities, and integrate them as tools to enhance and expand their everyday lives.  In short speak: she teaches people to savvy their intuition and let it be their superpower. Keisha is also the host of Aligning Divine podcast, where she shares tools, insights and inspirations for living from the power of aligning with your Soul essence.   Keisha also wrote a song inspired in part by her experience of opening up to her essence; it is called Global Embrace.  You can find both her podcast and her song on your favorite media app – like Spotify, iHeartradio, Apple Music/Podcast, Youtube and Soundcloud. You can also find Global Embrace on Amazon at http://bit.ly/GlobalEmbrace-AmazonMusic And you can find more ways to work/play with Keisha at https://keishaclark.live/ Aligning Divine podcast - https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/aligning-divine-keisha-clark/   ~ More About Orgasmic Embodiment With Sayler ~  Sayler Shiningstar is an energy whisperer and sexual healer, changing bodies simply by being the space, kindness and caring she naturally is. Orgasmic Embodiment was birthed out of Sayler's body's desire to bring about greater awareness of, for, and with bodies, what they desire and how a turned-on, orgasmic body is the prima materia of creation…quintessential! Sayler is a mother, daughter, friend, nature and animal lover and steward. She is an Access Consciousness Bars & Energetic Facelift Facilitator, Happy Mouth Generative & Restorative Energetic Systems of Healing Facilitator, Akashic Records Consultant, Reiki Master, Rebirther, Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher and Co-creator of Infinite Possibilities with Horses. For online and in-person sessions with Sayler Shiningstar, contact her via ~ email: Sayler@SaylerShiningstar.com, Facebook: Sayler Shiningstar, phone: +1 720.979.6781(in the USA), along with WhatsApp and Telegram https://saylershiningstar.com/ To get more of Orgasmic Embodiment With Sayler, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/orgasmic-embodiment-with-sayler/

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Amanda Lucia about her new book, White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals (2020, UC Press). We discuss transformational festivals in California, the nature of religious exoticism, white possessivism, and cultural appropriation in North American yoga and bhakti communities.Speaker BioAmanda Lucia is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Riverside. Her research engages the global exportation, appropriation, and circulation of Hinduism. She is author of White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals (October 2020), which investigates the intersections of whiteness and religious exoticism among the “spiritual, but not religious” at transformational festivals, such as Bhakti Fest, Wanderlust, Lightning in a Bottle, and Burning Man, with a particular focus on yoga practice. Her previous publications include Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (2014) and numerous articles. She is currently crafting a body of research on sexual abuse in guru-led religious communities.Linkshttps://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520376953/white-utopiashttps://www.amandajeanlucia.comhttps://ucriverside.academia.edu/AmandaLucia

Aligning Divine With Keisha Clark Radio Show LOTS to Celebrate today, with Earth Day 2020, and another installment in our Resolve To Evolve Series - in addition to all of the other Awesomeness going on in the world!  This week we are exploring the ideas and effects of "dominion" and "dominance" and how that plays into our journey of evolution, as well as the evolution of our planet earth playground.  Maybe it's time to play with some different perspectives of these energies, to create something totally different and - very most possibly - way more fun for us to play with.  Wanna dive in? You can also continue the celebration in the Facebook Group ~ Global Embrace To Expansion (for Earth Day and Beyond) ~ https://www.facebook.com/groups/GlobalEmbrace/ And you can find Global Embrace by Keisha Clark & Jay Adkins, on your favorite music app and on Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/GlobalEmbraceOnAmazonUS ~ More Aligning Divine With Keisha Clark ~ Aligning Divine is all about lining up with Your Divine Essence and living it every day!  Keisha Clark is inviting you to a fresh perspective of being “a spiritual being having a human experience.”  What would you like it to be, for you? We will dive into topics to inspire and invite you to re-cognize and re-member your Divine Nature, and to become more resonant with your Divine Essence.  What could you truly become capable of, as you shift into greater resonance and alignment with your essence? It's time for you to Know that You are required and desired to be participating in the Ah-Mazing co-creation on this planet right now!  Let's Celebrate the unique, brilliant and powerful expression of the Universe, that is YOU.  https://keishaclark.live/ To get more of Aligning Divine With Keisha Clark, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/aligning-divine-keisha-clark  

Aligning Divine With Keisha Clark Radio Show We all arrive at certain moments that we are struck with some awareness, some knowing, some recognition that now is the time to bring a certain(s) creation forward; to activate it or to share it into the world.  All that we have been and are, creating in our lives has relevance to something – it just may not be what or how or when we think or thought it would be.  And that is part of the magic and mystery of us, really – yes?  That is something that illustrates how powerful and limitless we are as creators.  So – what have you created that is for this moment? Will you bring it forward and share it now? That is our adventure this week, so sit back and open up and let's dive IN – and allow what has been created for this moment, to be revealed. ** To play more with Keisha's song, Global Embrace - find it on Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/GlobalEmbraceOnSpotify on iHeartradio - https://tinyurl.com/GlobalEmbraceOniHeartradio on Apple Music - https://tinyurl.com/GlobalEmbraceOnAppleMusic You can also purchase it as a direct download - https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/keishaclark ~ More Aligning Divine With Keisha Clark ~ Aligning Divine is all about lining up with Your Divine Essence and living it every day!  Keisha Clark is inviting you to a fresh perspective of being “a spiritual being having a human experience.”  What would you like it to be, for you? We will dive into topics to inspire and invite you to re-cognize and re-member your Divine Nature, and to become more resonant with your Divine Essence.  What could you truly become capable of, as you shift into greater resonance and alignment with your essence? It's time for you to Know that You are required and desired to be participating in the Ah-Mazing co-creation on this planet right now!  Let's Celebrate the unique, brilliant and powerful expression of the Universe, that is YOU.  https://keishaclark.live/ To get more of Aligning Divine With Keisha Clark, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/aligning-divine-keisha-clark  

Inspired Choices with Christine McIver Radio Show To really change the world, have you bought that you have to save the world?  How about saving the people in the world?  What about protecting others from themselves and what they don't know?  What does saving the world do for you? If you've ever heard yourself say this or any version of it, this conversation will be a game changer.  Join host Christine McIver and co-host Keisha Clark as they poke the bear with all of these outdated concepts. Keisha Clark is a Master Bodywork Therapist and Sound Healer who blends her decades of experience as a Spirit & Body Intuitive with her gifts of Music and Mysticism.  The culmination of her abilities has brought her to her calling of Embodiment Alchemy through which, Keisha invites you to become aware of, and be empowered by, what you Know – from your bones to your Soul.   And she helps you cultivate your unique abilities and Soul truths, to have greater clarity and confidence with your choices and how you organically create your life.  Keisha includes animals in her work as well, from a deep connection with Animals and Nature she has experienced all her life.  And they are an integral part of our collective healing and learning journeys. Keisha is also an author and inspirational speaker.  She has enjoyed being both a radio show host, and a guest on many others.  She works with individuals and groups, both online and in-person, and offers private and public events.  Keisha released her first music single, Global Embrace, in 2017.  She has been referred to as ‘a siren of consciousness’ by some, and is excited to be bringing new music into the world, and offering live events around the US and Canada – and beyond! You can find more with Keisha at https://keishaclark.live/    keisha@keishaclark.live NEW V.I.P. Holographic Coaching ~ SPECIAL 7 SESSIONS $750 CAD - Only 20 Spots Available - https://www.inspiredchoices.ca/business-packages.html Bust Doubt Out: http://www.inspiredchoices.ca/bust-doubt-out.html UpYourAsk 2.0: http://www.inspiredchoices.ca/upyourask.html ~ More About Inspired Choices with Christine McIver ~  Christine McIver is a Possibilities Coach, Inspirational Speaker, Radio Show Host and Access Consciousness Certified Facilitator who is driven to inspire individuals and organizations to make choices that will bring them greater joy, self confidence and remarkable positive change. Christine lives her life out loud and is a natural cheerleader who believes in the abilities of others to change their lives quickly and easily. Creator of the programs The Pleasure of Business, Divorce with Dignity and Be The Dominatrix of Your Life, she entices clients to show up more in their life, business & relationships than they have ever before. Inviting them to make all that they once knew was possible, possible. Christine believes that you can be living & loving your life with ease! Christine has impacted thousands of individuals both in Canada and abroad with her enthusiastic message of possibilities. Her kind, direct and joy filled approach is both comforting and stretching. Christine infectious laughter invites you into knowing that all things are possible beyond what is present in your life right now.   http://www.inspiredchoices.ca/ ~   https://www.facebook.com/InspiredChoicesInc ~ christinemciver.accessconsciousness.com  https://www.youtube.com/user/InspiredChoicesInc To get more of Inspired Choices ~ Christine McIver, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/inspired-choices-with-christine-mciver-possibilities-coach/  

Musical Magic with Elfy Jo Radio Show We know music makes you want to move your body - and - What if music could move you to a whole new way of experiencing your life?  My guest Keisha Clark embarked on a creative musical journey, bringing her song Global Embrace into the world earlier this year.  It has been an adventure that brought a lot of new experiences and perspectives into her personal life.  What possibilities could music open up to and for you, if you would allow it? Join Elfy Jo and Keisha for this week’s show as they explore more possibilities of creating with Music. Keisha Clark is an Intuitive Medium, Therapeutic Bodyworker, Animal Communicator, Radio Show Host, Author and Inspirational Speaker.  She invites, inspires and empowers people to shift their perspective and shatter their limitations, beginning with her challenge to “Stop asking your life to make sense!” Find Global Embrace, here - http://cdbaby.com/cd/keishaclark Find Keisha on Facebook ~ https://www.facebook.com/LivingBeyondLinear/ Email her ~ keisha@livingbeyondlinear.com Join Keisha & Elfy in their join creation here:   https://tinyurl.com/FindingMagic ~ More about Musical Magic with Elfy Jo ~  Do you enjoy music? Is music something you enjoy rocking to in your car or in the shower? Do you happen to play an instrument? Or are you wishing you played an instrument? Have you ever noticed that music can makes everything in your life better?Are you curious about how it can bring more ease, more joy and more possibilities in to your life, body and play? On Musical Magic with Elfy Jo she explores the magic that music truly is and can be for you as well. Come play and enjoy a whole new world of possibilities.  AND have a whole lot fun while we are at it too! Elfy Jo is a professional musician that lives and creates from South China. She played clarinet in the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra for five years before she quit working there. She felt there was more to life than simply reproducing music and having it be a J.O.B. Through a series of classes, some Access Consciousness and a new group of magical friends Elfy was able to connect back to her creative source and authentic, bubbly self.  Making music became a joy again and now it is her mission to help others rekindle their creative fires.  As a Master of Music Elfy combines all her on stage and teaching experience with energy and magic. She is available for in person and online sessions to help you break free of any creative limitations, whether you are an amateur or a professional. Recitals, debuts, concerts and even exams can be a joy for both you and the audience! Elfy also offers intuitive musical healing, as well as BARS sessions. Website: www.elfyjo.com    Email: elfyjo.magic@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusicalMagicwithElfyJo/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuK3CeqonxZQRBFK1Uqc6w To get more of Musical Magic with Elfy Jo be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/musical-magic-elfy-jo/

Writing on Air Radio Show   I bet this is a type of writing you weren't expecting to see here: lyrics! Join me this week with my guest, author & lyricist Keisha Clark as we talk about how writing for music is different from prose. Keisha's recent release Global Embrace has been met with awe, wonder and deep gratitude from all who enjoy it. Find "Global Embrace" at – http://cdbaby.com/cd/keishaclark   Keisha is a happily unconventional Empowerment Agent who blends her capacities in the Intuitive and Healing Modalities and Divination Arts, to facilitate her clients and students into greater awareness, clarity and confidence.  She speaks to All of the energies having to do with changing what you desire to change – people, animals, elements, places and things.  Keisha brings her relentless curiosity, her potent kindness and her willingness to put every topic on the table for discussion, and she offers it to you with No judgment and No expectation of you.  She will challenge you to shift your perspectives and shatter your limitations!  Find Keisha on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LivingBeyondLinear/   Find out more at http://www.writingonair.net.

Living Beyond Linear Radio Show with Keisha Clark You've Been Found Out!!  ...what does that bring up for you?  It always amazes me how this can stop us in our tracks; the possibility of "being found out".  For just about everyone I have known and worked with, it usually brings up all kinds of things about being hunted or tortured or killed or destroying the world - all kinds of unpleasantness.  In most cases "being found out" equates to being turned out, shut out or driven out of wherever and whatever we have believed to be our safety. So what if we could have a different point of view and approach to being found out?  What if we could actually tap into Our Self, and Our Knowing, and choose beyond all the desertion and death and destruction scenarios?  That is what we will be exploring this week.  And of course, I'm challenging you to stop asking it to make sense. What if "being found out" could be an invitation to finding more of ourselves? Find Keisha on Facebook ~ https://www.facebook.com/LivingBeyondLinear/ Have a listen to ~ Global Embrace ~ a new song by Keisha Clark and Jay Adkins, here - https://soundcloud.com/keishaclark/global-embrace-keisha-clark-jay-adkins Or email your questions and comments to keisha@livingbeyondlinear.com

Living Beyond Linear Radio Show with Keisha Clark Do you like music?  Do you find it inspiring, soothing, exciting, inviting...and a whole bunch of "ings" that are pretty much awesome?  Music can change us - it can change our body.  Music can change our brain.  Music can change our life.  Music can change our world.  So what is this Magic of Music? I am Honored and Excited to welcome my Very Special - and Magical - Guest, Jay Adkins, this week to celebrate the Magic of Music.  Jay is my Brilliant co-creator and the producer of Global Embrace ~ a new song we premiered last week (February 28, 2017).  I am Delighted to get to share him - and his music - with you this week. Jay Adkins was a scholarship student at University of North Texas where he received a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory. He completed his Master of Music in Music Theory from Southwestern while a Teaching Fellow there, and did additional doctoral work at UNT. For 30+ years he's been composing, arranging, producing, and performing in and around DFW. He has served as co-arranger for the Miss Texas Pageant, writer and producer for 25 years with Kids Who Care, and has served as musical director, pianist, or bassist for every major theatre company in Fort Worth. Recent projects include the documentary Our Spirits Don't Speak English (Richie Media - Dallas) for which he provided original music and post production. Jay has a deep interest in music of the Middle East, and studies the dumbek.  His study and practice of yoga and Eastern thought – and a journey to Tibet and Nepal – have served as a compass for his creations.  You can find Jay's Incredible music here - https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jayamusic And you can find Global Embrace, here - http://cdbaby.com/cd/keishaclark Find Keisha on Facebook ~ https://www.facebook.com/LivingBeyondLinear/ Or email your questions and comments to keisha@livingbeyondlinear.com

Living Beyond Linear Radio Show with Keisha Clark You're probably familiar with asking questions, right?  What about asking for questions?  Huh?...  Yep - it's actually a fantastic tool to use when you get stuck.  Wanna play with that? Join Keisha this week for, well, questions!  Haha!  The call lines and the Chat Room are open,  if you would like to ask for a question during the show - Where could you be willing to let the question take you? Find Keisha on Facebook ~ https://www.facebook.com/LivingBeyondLinear/ And if you haven't heard about the new song, Global Embrace, from Keisha Clark & Jay Adkins - you can go here - http://cdbaby.com/cd/keishaclark Or email your questions and comments to keisha@livingbeyondlinear.com

Amanda J. Lucia is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where she is a Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Immigration and Religion. Her research focuses on religious encounters between North Americans and South Asians since the early-19th century. Her first book, Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (2014) investigates a contemporary guru movement (that of Mata Amritanandamayi) through the ethnographic accounts of devotees. Dr. Lucia’s research interests include guru authority and sexuality, and the politics of cultural representation. Her current book project, Spiritual Nomads: Creating Yogic Selves and Spirituality in Festival Spaces is a study of American spirituality through yoga festivals. We spoke mainly about her research on Amma, the so-called “Hugging Saint,” and what it reveals about contemporary spirituality, guru-disciple relationships and other phenomena. Learn more about Amanda Lucia here: http://religiousstudies.ucr.edu/full-time-faculty/amanda-lucia/

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma's American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma's devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women's empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma’s American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma’s devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women’s empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma’s American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma’s devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women’s empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma’s American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma’s devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women’s empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma’s American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma’s devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women’s empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma’s American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma’s devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women’s empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Waiting several hours in line for a hug is well worth it for thousands of people, the devotees of the Guru, Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi. In Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (University of California Press, 2014), Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor of Religion at UC Riverside, provides a rich ethnographic account of Amma’s American followers and convincingly argues that there is much to learn here about gender, interpretation, and contemporary American religiosity. Amma’s devotees in the United States are usually “inheritors” or “adopters” of Hindu traditions, which shapes their interpretive vantage point and understandings of Amma as Hindu goddesses or feminist. American multiculturalism and romantic orientalist attitudes frequently reifiy cultural differences further structuring the interrelations between South Asian and non-Indian devotees in the American context. In our conversation we discuss female religious leaders, darshan, gurus in American context, purity and ritual, women’s empowerment, village and urban transformations, Devi Bhava, and gendered interpretations of Hinduism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices