Chapters
Chapters
Kim, H. (2023) “On Wondrous Moments as the Basis for a Swaminarayan Ethics of Sociality.” In Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics, ed. Tulasi Srinivas. (pp. 245-269). New York: State University of New York Press.
Kim, H. (2016). Thinking Through Akshardham and the Making of the Swaminarayan Self. In Raymond B. Williams and Yogi Trivedi (Eds.). Swaminarayan Hinduism: Tradition, Adaptation, and Identity. (pp. 383-401). New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
H. Kim (2016). Transnational Movements: Portable Religion and the Case Study of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha. In Brian A. Hatcher (Eds.). Hinduism in the Modern World. (pp. 48-64). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Kim, H. (2013). Swaminarayan Bhakti Yoga and the Aksarabrahman Guru. In Ellen Goldberg and Mark Singleton (Eds.). Gurus of Modern Yoga. (pp. 237-260). New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
Kim, H. (2013). Devotional Expressions in the BAPS Swaminaryan Community. In P. Pratap Kumar (Eds.). Contemporary Hinduism. (pp. 126-137). London/Durham, United Kingdom: Routledge/Acumen Publishing.
Kim, H. (2012). A Fine Balance: Adaptation and Accommodation in the Swaminarayan Sanstha. In S. Mawani and A. Mukadam (Eds.). Gujarati Communities Across the Globe: Memory, Identity and Continuity. (pp. 141-156). Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom: Trentham Books.
Kim, H. (2012). Work-in-Progress: the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha on the Web. In J. Zavos, P. Kanungo, D. Reddy, et. al. (Eds.). Public Hinduisms. (pp. 303-308). New Delhi, India: Sage.
Kim, H. (2012). The BAPS Swaminarayan Temple Organisation and its Publics. In J. Zavos, P. Kanungo, D. Reddy, et. al. (Eds.). Public Hinduisms. (pp. 417-439). New Delhi, India: Sage.
Kim, H. (2010). The Swaminarayan Movement and Religious Subjectivity. In E. Simpson, A. Kapadia (Eds.). The Idea of Gujarat: History, Ethnography and Text. (pp. 207-228). New Delhi, India: Orient Blackswan.
Kim, H (2008). Managing Deterritorialisation, Sustaining Belief: the Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha as Ethnographic Case Study and Theoretical Foil. In A. Geertz, M. Warburg, D. Christensen (Eds.). New Religions and Globalization: Empirical, Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. (pp. 225-242). Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.
Kim, H. (2007). 'Edifice Complex': Swaminarayan Bodies and Buildings in the Diaspora. In A. Mukadam, S. Mawani (Eds.). Gujaratis in the West: Evolving Identities in Contemporary Society. (pp. 59-78). Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kim, H. (2005). Swaminarayan Movement. In L. Jones (Eds.). The Encylopedia of Religion. (pp. 8889-8893). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale/Macmillan Reference.
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
Kim, H. and Geary, D. (2023) Caring for the Gods: Virtuous Development and the Infrastructure of Devotion in South Asia. Panel for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
Kim, H. (2023) History is not for “Toppers”: Religious Epistemologies in the Management of Aspirational Scripts. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
Kim, H. (2023) An Affective Model: Crafting a Sustainable Life through an Artisan Collective in Kachchh, Gujarat. 19th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and World Anthropology Congress. New Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2023). Preservation and Pragmatism: Signs of the Good Life in BAPS Youth Programmes. Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference. Daegu, South Korea.
Kim, H. (2022) Devotion, Curated: On BAPS, Swaminarayan Studies, and their Orthodoxies. American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado.
Kim, H. (2022) Sensing the Swaminarayan Guru: On Somatic Ways of Knowing or Overcoming Ethnographic Incommensurables in Bhakti Studies. Regional Bhakti Scholars Network Symposium at Madison South Asia Conference. Madison, Wisconsin.
Kim, H. (2022) Ashes to Ashes, Guru to Guru: Reading Memorial Practices for What They Say about the Living, the Past, and the Future of Swaminarayan Hindu Devotionalism. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Kim, H. (2021) Creating Coherence: An Enquiry Concerning Educational Training Sites and Swaminarayan Subjectivities. Conference on Sites and Processes of Ethical Learning: Religion and Self-Making in Asia, virtual. National University of Singapore, Asian Research Institute.
Kim, H. (2021) Models for Dreaming: On Youth Aspirations and their Religious Change Agents. International Conference on Youth, Religion, and Globalization. Paris, France.
Kim, H. (2020) Purification and its Discontents: On Contagions and Practices of Containment. Roundtable for the American Academy of Religion Virtual Annual Conference.
Kim, H. (2020) Brave New Ambitions: Youth Artisans and the Quest for Sustainable Living in Kachchh, Gujarat. Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference, virtual. Kobe, Japan.
Kim, H. (2020) Provisioning from Afar: The BAPS Swaminarayan Guru and the Currency of Affection. Association for Asian Studies. Boston, Massachusetts.
Kim, H. (2019) Bhungas, Boleros, and mashru in Kachchh: Analysing Changing Identities and Aspirations in the Marketplace of Desires. Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference. Bangkok, Thailand.
Kim, H. (2019) On the Containment of Religious Knowledge: A Case Study Involving an Earthquake, Survivor Requests, and a Transnational Hindu Community. Society for the Anthropology Religion. University of Toronto, Canada.
Kim, H. (2018) Ethical Manoeuvres and Ethnographic Consequences: Grappling with Dissonances in Swaminarayan Research. In Madison South Asia Conference. Madison, Wisconsin.
Kim, H. (2018) Discursive Tremors in the Time of Reconstruction: Making Sense of Swaminarayan Village Rebuilding Projects and their Publics and Counterpublics. In Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference. New Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2017) Tracing the Aroma, Savouring the Discoveries: Swaminarayan Temple Kitchens and Tourist Canteens as Culinary Sites for Devotional Innovation and Virtuous Exchanges. In Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference. Seoul, South Korea.
Kim, H. (2017). On Wonder and the Animated Self: Navigating Rural and Urban Life in Western India Through an Energetic Swaminarayan Ethics. In Association for Asian Studies. Toronto, Canada.
Kim, H. (2016). Teak Walls and Ten Thousand Library Books: on the Management of Reconstruction Discourses and the Challenges of Disaster Ethnography. In American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Kim, H. (2015). Broken Houses and Too Much Local Brew: Immoral and Moral Ingredients in the Making of the Moral Self. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. San Diego, California.
Kim, H. (2014). Very Modern Human Souls and Saints: Rethinking Relations of Non-Sovereign Selves for Living the Ethical Life. In American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C.
Kim, H. (2014). Ajivan Sevaks, Lifetime Devotees: Humanising the Pathway from Singular Devotion to Collective Gains. In European Conference on South Asian Studies. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Bhatt, K. and Kim, H. (2014). Green Fields, Healthy Cows, and a Full Moon: Tracing Rural-Urban Imaginaries Through the Sankari Swaminaryan Temple. In Conference on the Study of Religions in India. Butler University, Butler, Indiana.
Kim, H. (2014). From Ayurvedic Spas to Leisure Temple Spaces: Tracing Narratives and Seeking Interpretive Strategies for Approaching the Indian Middle Class. In Association for Asian Studies. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kim, H. (2014). Travelling Cultures and Other Essential Ingredients: Approaching Gujarati Otherwise-ness through Food. In Global South Asia Conference. New York University, New York, New York.
Kim, H. (2013). Moral Claims, Liberal Critiques, and Making a Case for Unscrambling Epistemologies of Difference. In American Anthropological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
Kim, H. (2013). Prayers in Translation: Reflections on the Portability of Contemplative Practices. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Pasadena, California.
Kim, H. (2012). Negotiating NIMBY, Neighbourliness, and being Publicly Hindu in the United States. In European Conference on South Asian Studies. Lisbon, Portugal.
Kim, H. (2011). Monumental Revisions: Reading Architecture for Traces of the Middle. In American Anthropological Association. Montreal, Canada.
Kim, H. (2011). Steeples and Spires or How to Parse the Balloon and Build a Temple. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kim, H. (2010). Bewitched and Bothered in Swaminarayan Akshardham: Boat Rides, Exhibitions, and the Trials of Representing Hinduism. In American Academy of Religion. Atlanta, Georgia.
Kim, H. (2010). Charity and Service: the Public Face of 21st Century Swaminarayan Bhakti. In European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies. Bonn, Germany.
Kim, H. (2010). Public Entanglements: the BAPS Community and its Juggling of Different Imaginaries. In European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies. Bonn, Germany.
Kim, H. (2010). Consuming Akshardham: Reflections on Architecture, Themed Spaces, and the Cultivation of BAPS Swaminarayan Devotional Practices. In Association for Asian Studies. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kim, H. (2009). Coming to Terms with 'Religion': Examining the Shared Space of Global Hindus and Critical Anthropologists. In American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kim, H. (2009). Remaking Space: BAPS Swaminarayan Virtual Geography and its Transnational Implications. In The Public Representation of a Religion called Hinduism: Hindu Trans-nationalism: Organizations, Ideologies, Networks. Houston, Texas.
Kim, H. (2009). Irreducible Histories: The Problem of. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Asilomar, California.
Kim, H. (2009). The BAPS Swaminarayan Temple Organisation and its Publics. In International Conference on the Public Representation of a Religion called Hinduism: Umbrella Organisations and Ecumenical Hinduism. Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Kim, H. (2009). Post-colonial, Post-Liberal Gujarat: the Discourse on Secularism and its Alternatives. In Rethinking Religion in India II: Rethinking Secularism. New Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2008). Ambiguous Positionality: Rethinking Categories via Collaborations with a Hindu Devotional Community. In American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, California.
Kim, H. (2008). Globalisation the Swaminarayan Way: New Choices for a New Religion. In American Academy of Religion. Chicago, Illinois.
Kim, H. (2008). Liberal Scholars, Educated Informants, and the Need to Rethink the Hindu Subject: the Case of the Swaminarayan Community. In American Academy of Religion. Chicago, Ilinois.
Kim, H. (2008). Public Engagement and Private Desires: Swaminarayan Temples and their Contribution to the Discourses on Religion. In European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies. Manchester, U.K.
Kim, H. (2008). A Fine Balance: Standardisation and Accommodation in the Swaminarayan Sanstha. In Gujarat Studies Association. Toronto, Canada.
Kim, H. (2007). Meeting the Bishop, Meeting the Governor: Interpreting the Anglo-Imperial Encounter and its Effect on Swaminarayan Devotionalism. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Phoenix, Arizona.
Kim, H. (2007). The Bonds of Enchantment: Swaminarayan Mediations of Secularism, Religion, and Living in the West. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Phoenix, Arizona.
Kim, H. (2006). 'Edifice Complex': Swaminarayan Bodies and Buildings in the Diaspora. In Gujarat Studies Association 1st Biennial Conference. London, U.K..
Kim, H. (2005). Becoming New World Hindus: Strategies for the Education of Indian Youth and the Making of Religion. In American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C..
Kim, H. (2005). Becoming a New Religion the Old-Fashioned Way: Perspectives from a Transnational Hindu Movement. In American Academy of Religion. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kim, H. (2005). Embracing Religion: Contributions to Discourses on Morality and Religion from a Hindu Devotional Movement. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Vancouver, Canada.
Kim, H. (2004). Homeland Securities: Religion and the Making of Transnational Citizens in the Swaminarayan Diaspora. In American Anthropological Association. Atlanta, Georgia.
Kim, H. (2003). Sensory Reconfigurations: Swaminarayan Bhakti and the Making of a Religion. In International Association for the History of Religions. New Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2002). Experiencing Belief: Swaminarayan Bhakti and the Reasoned Engagement with the Senses. In 31st Annual Conference on South Asia. Madison, Wisconsin.
Kim, H. (2002). Managing Deterritorialisation, Sustaining Belief: the Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha as Ethnographic Case Study and Theoretical Foil. In Renner Conference, "New Religions and Globalization: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives". Aarhus, Denmark.
Kim, H. (2002). Finding Solace off the M4: Sacred Space in an Urban Context. In Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Cleveland, Ohio.
Invited Presentations
Invited Presentations
Kim, H. (2023, October) Fieldworkers, Interlocutors, and Others: Thinking Through the Limits of Ethnography. Friday Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, India.
Kim, H. (2023, October) Bangtan Booming: Comparative Avenues for Exploring Youth Culture in India and Korea. Centre for Korean Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2023, October) Playing the Ethnographic Field: Ethics and Epistemological Puzzles. Graduate Course (P0638) Culture, Identity and Politics: Critical Reflections. Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2023, October) ’From blinded zeal, by faction led’: On the Fervent Need to Analyse Religion as a Knowledge Category. Graduate Seminar, Religion and Society (SOC 103). Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.
Kim, H. (2023, June) What the Self Desires: Untangling Economic Liberalism, Aspirational Scripts, and Swaminarayan Devotionalism in Western India. South Asia Center Colloquium, Seoul National University Asia Center. Seoul, South Korea.
Kim, H. (2022, August) It’s Personal: Living in the World as BAPS Swaminarayan Bhakto. Beyond Boundaries: A Celebration of the Work of John E. Cort, University of California, Davis.
Kim, H. (2021, December) Success, Grit, and the Guru: Swaminarayan Pedagogies for Self-Shaping and Confidence-building. Youth and South Asia Symposium, Session on Youth, Religion, and Belonging, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, virtual.
Kim, H. (2021, November) Responsibilities of Working Around, On, Through, With, and For NGOs and Non-Profits. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, virtual.
Kim, H. (2021, May) Roundtable, On Love: Affective Delights and Ethnographic Rewards in Kutch. Society for the Anthropology of Religion Biennial Meeting, virtual.
Kim, H. (2019, July) Roundtable on Rapid Religious Change: Why do Religious Beliefs/Knowledge at Times Change Very Quickly, and What Kinds of Societal Impacts do These Changes Have? Society for the Anthropology of Religion Biennial Meeting. University of Toronto, Canada.
H. Kim (2017, July). Embedded Meanings and Relations: Reckoning Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple Complexes Through Material and Devotional Tracings. Tokyo University Integrated Area Studies on South Asia (TINDAS) and The Center for South Asian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (FINDAS), The University of Tokyo, Japan.
H. Kim (2016, April). Intimate Stones, Infinite Selves: Considerations of Materiality and the Beyond in the Ethical Formation of BAPS Swaminarayan Religious Subjectivity. Columbia University Seminar on South Asia, Columbia University, New York, NY
H. Kim (2014, November). Ontological Stabilities and Ethnographic Knowledge: Experiencing the Mega Temple Complex and Swaminarayan Religious Subjectivity. Columbia University Seminar in Studies in Religion and Columbia University Seminar on Contents and Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY.
H. Kim (2013, August). Thinking Through Akshardham: Transnational Assemblages and Relations in the BAPS Swaminarayan Community. Gujarat Itihas Parishad, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, B.J. Institute of Learning and Research, BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
H. Kim (2012, January). Devotional Bodies and Liberalising Economies: Rethinking the Relationship between Religious Communities and Gujarat Civil Society. Centre for Social Studies, Surat, Gujarat.
Kim, H. (2010, April). Patterned Ideals: Consumption, Devotion, and Aesthetic Choices in Hindu Temple Architecture. Adelphi University.
Kim, H. (2008, May). Contemporary Gujarat from an Ethnographic Perspective: Swaminarayan Bhakti and Some Considerations for Unpacking Assumptions about Religion and Religious Subjectivity. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, U.K.
Kim, H. (2006, November). Transforming Talk: Swaminarayan Women and the Cultivation of the Ideal Devotee. New York University.
Kim, H. (2003, October). The Study of Religion, the Obvious and the Sensible: Some Reflections on Being Pious, Modern and Swaminarayan. Columbia University.
Kim, H (2001, July). Situating Swaminarayan Bhakti: the Space of Colonial Discourse. University of Bombay.
