Anna Bigelow
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Bio
Anna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She received her MA from Columbia University (1995) and PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara (2004) with a focus on South Asian Islam. Her book, Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Oxford University Press, 2010) is a study of a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community. Bigelow's current projects include a comparative study of shared sacred sites in India and Turkey and an edited volume on material objects in Islamic cultures.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Religious Studies
2024-25 Courses
- Hindu-Muslim Encounters in South Asia
RELIGST 277, RELIGST 377 (Aut) - Sacred Space
RELIGST 235, RELIGST 335 (Win) - Theories and Methods
RELIGST 304A (Aut) -
Independent Studies (7)
- Individual Work
RELIGST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work for Graduate Students
RELIGST 389 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Paper in the Field
RELIGST 392 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Win, Spr) - Research in Islamic Studies
RELIGST 386 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Essay/Honors Thesis Research
RELIGST 297 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Teaching Internship
RELIGST 390 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Interfaith Peacebuilding and Global Justice
RELIGST 115 (Win) - The Good Death
RELIGST 10N (Aut) - Theories and Methods
RELIGST 304B (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Death, Power, and Religion
RELIGST 215, RELIGST 315 (Aut) - Exploring Islamic Mysticism
RELIGST 62 (Win) - Theories and Methods
RELIGST 304A (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Religion and Conflict
RELIGST 119 (Win) - Sacred Space
RELIGST 235, RELIGST 335 (Aut) - The Good Death
RELIGST 10N (Aut)
- Interfaith Peacebuilding and Global Justice
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Marina Johnson, Saad Lakhani, Oriane Lavole, Utsavi Singh, Valeria Vergani -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Antonio Lopez -
Orals Evaluator
Adele Stock -
Doctoral (Program)
Nicole Carroll, Christopher Gurley, Julia Hirsch, Lanai Huddleston, Avraham Kelman, David Monteserin Narayana, Jeffrey Sanchez, Julian Zumbach -
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Jason Schwartz
All Publications
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The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGION
2023; 38 (1): 191-193
View details for DOI 10.1080/13537903.2022.2091205
View details for Web of Science ID 000953850400027
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Defending Muhammad in Modernity. (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
2020; 79 (4): 1049–50
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0021911820002806
View details for Web of Science ID 000599288000048
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Lived Secularism: Studies in India and Turkey
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION
2019; 87 (3): 725–64
View details for DOI 10.1093/jaarel/lfz035
View details for Web of Science ID 000493113100012