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DESCRIPTION:Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in millennial Mum
 bai\, stitching selves and spanning spaces describe two simultaneous proce
 sses at the&nbsp\;heart of migrant religiosity in contemporary India and b
 eyond. These twin processes of circular migration permit women and men fro
 m eastern India to travel across the breadth of the country to the metropo
 lis of Mumbai and back home again. Dr. Uday Chandra will narrate the stori
 es of construction and domestic workers who stitch together new selves in 
 the city as they rework popular Hinduism and indigenous Catholicism as res
 ources for spiritual succor as well as bodily refuge. These are two very d
 ifferent sets of migrant narratives\, the former rooted in the politics of
  caste-based contestation and empowerment in Bihar and the latter in “trib
 al” or "indigenous" articulations of Christianity in the forest state of J
 harkhand. Yet these divergent narratives\, shaped by gendered processes of
  negotiating new postcolonial selves\, help us make sense of the religious
  lifeworlds emerging in tandem with urban aspirations in contemporary Indi
 a and beyond. Between the political economy of labor circulation and the e
 thics of socio-religious change\, the new selves stitched by migrants unse
 ttle and rework established notions of place and belonging in unexpected w
 ays.
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SUMMARY:Stitching Selves\, Spanning Spaces: Making Sense of Migrant Religio
 sity in Mumbai
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 rk in millennial Mumbai\, stitching selves and spanning spaces describe tw
 o simultaneous processes at the&nbsp\;<span style="background-color: initi
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 -color: auto">heart of migrant religiosity in contemporary India and beyon
 d. These twin processes of circular migration permit women and men from ea
 stern India to travel across the breadth of the country to the metropolis 
 of Mumbai and back home again. </span></p><p><span style="background-color
 : initial\; font-family: inherit\; font-size: inherit\; text-align: inheri
 t\; text-transform: inherit\; white-space: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\
 ; caret-color: auto">Dr. Uday Chandra will narrate the stories of construc
 tion and domestic workers who stitch together new selves in the city as th
 ey rework popular Hinduism and indigenous Catholicism as resources for spi
 ritual succor as well as bodily refuge. These are two very different sets 
 of migrant narratives\, the former rooted in the politics of caste-based c
 ontestation and empowerment in Bihar and the latter in “tribal” or "indige
 nous" articulations of Christianity in the forest state of Jharkhand. Yet 
 these divergent narratives\, shaped by gendered processes of negotiating n
 ew postcolonial selves\, help us make sense of the religious lifeworlds em
 erging in tandem with urban aspirations in contemporary India and beyond. 
 </span></p><p><span style="background-color: initial\; font-family: inheri
 t\; font-size: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transform: inherit\; w
 hite-space: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\; caret-color: auto">Between th
 e political economy of labor circulation and the ethics of socio-religious
  change\, the new selves stitched by migrants unsettle and rework establis
 hed notions of place and belonging in unexpected ways.</span><br></p>
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