Prof. Dr. Carola Lorea

2026. Communities of sound. Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

2016. Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman. A Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation. Leiden: Brill.

(Translator) Bhattacharya, Nabarun. 2016. Gli Ammutinati di Calcutta: [Calcutta's Mutineers; original title: Kangal Malshat, translated from Begali]. Milano: Metropoli d'Asia.

with Parthapratim C. (editors and translators). (2012). Orchidea Barberini nei panni di Banalata Sen:Jibananda Das e la poesia bengali al di là di Tagore [Jibanananda Das and Bengali poetry beyond Tagore; original title Banalata Sen, translated from Bengali]. Kolkata: N.E. Publishers. 

with Mario Prayer and Neeman Sobhan. 2012. Corso di lingua bengali [A complete course of Bengali language for Italian speakers]. Milano: Hoepli.

With Rosalind Hackett (eds.). 2024. Religious Sounds Research Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power. Amsterdam University Press.

With Rohit Singh (eds.). 2023. (October). The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions. New York, SUNY.
With Emily Hertzman, Erica Larson, and Natalie Lang. 2023 (June). CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age. University of Hawaii Press.

Co-edited with E. Larson, A. Chaudhuri, E. Hertzman. "Faith in Immunity: Covid Vaccines, Religions and Structures of Trust.” Journal of Asian Medicine. Spring issue 2024.

Co-edited with N. Mahadev, N. Chen and N. Lang. Religion and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mediating Presence and Distance. Religion, 52: 177-198.

Co-edited with Jayati Bhattacharya (guest editors). Re-centering the Bay of Bengal: Connected Spaces in an Inter-Asian Bordersea. IIAS Newsletter (Spring 2020 Issue).

Co-edited with Matthew Pritchard (guest editors). 2018. Translation Impossible: The Ethics, Politics and Pragmatics of Radical Translation in South Asian Literatures. Special Issue of: Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 5.3: 1-103.

With Erica M. Larson, Ashawari Chaudhuri and Emily Z. Hertzman. 2024. Introduction. In: Faith in Immunity and Structures of Trust: COVID-19 Vaccines from Asian Perspectives. Special issue of Asian Medicine 19 no. 1, 1-33.

2024. "A Sonic Vaccine for a White-Collar Disease: Matua Approaches to Covid-19, Rural Pride, and Sonic-Sacred Healing." Asian Medicine 19 no. 1, 136-163.

 2024. “From Dharma  to  Sound:  Decolonizing  Definitions  of  Religious Community.” AЯGOS 3(2): 64–71. DOI: 10.26034/fr.argos.2024.4753

with Aditi Mukherjee and Dishani Roy. 2023. “A Dalit Religion Online: Clashing Sensoryscapes and Remote Ethnographies Behind the Screen.” Journal of Dialectical Anthropology. 

 2023. “From Oral Tradition to Digital Archive: New Primary Sources for the Study of Baul Traditions.” Journal of Hindu Studies (Oxford) 16 (3): 344-371. 

2022. Sonic Matters: Singing as Method and the Epistemology of Singing across Bengali Esoteric Lineages. American Anthropologist.

with N. Mahadev, N. Chen and N. Lang. “Religion and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mediating Presence and Distance.” (editorial introduction). Religion, 52 (Spring issue) 2022. 

2021. Remote or unreachable? The gender of connectivity and the challenges of pandemic fieldwork across the Bay of Bengal. In "Collaboratory of Indian Ocean Ethnographies". The Society of Cultural Anthropology. 23 September 2021.

2021. বাংলাদেশের মতুয়া সম্প্রদায়ের স্থানীয় সমাজ কাঠামোতে সহাবস্থানের স্বরূপ ও প্রতিবন্ধকতা. Bhabanagara: International Peer-reviewed Journal of Bengal Studies. Dhaka Vol. 13 no. 15: 1623-47.

2020. Contesting Multiple Borders: Bricolage Thinking and Matua Narratives on the Andaman Islands. Southeast Asian Studies 9 n.2 (August 2020).

2020. Religious returns, ritual changes and divinations on COVID‐19 (Special Section article). Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (2020) 0, 0 1–2. © 2020 European Association of Social Anthropologists.

2018. Migrating Repertoires in the Middle of the Ocean: A Little-known History of Displacement and Bengali Identity. Rivista degli Studi Orientali (RSO) 91, Special Section 2 De-Centering Dominant Narratives in India: 51-66.

2018. Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in the Songs and Practices of 'Heterodox' Bengali Lineages. Asian Ethnology 77. 1/2: 169-213.

2018. Sectarian Scissions, Vaishnava Deviancy, and Trajectories of Oral Literature: A Virtual Dialogue between the Bengali Songs of Bhaktivinod Thakur (1838-1914) and Duddu Shah (1841-1911). Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien, Band 35: 83-114.

2018. সম্প্রদায়গত সামাজিক বিভাজন এবং বৈষ্ণব অপসম্প্রদায় : ভক্তিবিনোদ ঠাকুর  এবং দুদ্দু শাহের গান. Bhābnagar International Journal of Bengal Studies 9, no. 10: 1075-1098.

2018. “I Am Afraid of Telling You This, Lest You’d Be Scared Shitless!”: The Myth of Secrecy and the Study of the Esoteric Traditions of Bengal. Religions 9(6), 172: 1-24.

2017. “"How Many Know How to (Make) Love?" - Semantic Understanding of Bengali Baul Songs and Politics of Power in the Lineage of Bhaba Pagla. Kervan - International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 21: 81-116.

2018. Snake charmers on parade: A performance-centered study of the crisis of the Ojhā healers. Asian Medicine 13 (1-2), 247-275, 2018.

with Zami Tahmidal, 2016. Inter-religious Encounter and Proselytism in Pre-Mughal Bengal: An Analysis of the Report by the Jesuit Father Nicolas Pimenta. Indian Historical Review 43.2: 234-369.

2016. বাউল চর্চা এবং ইতালি, আন্তঃসাংস্কৃতিক আদানপ্রদানের সংক্ষিপ্ত ইতিহাস. Bhābnagar International Journal of Bengal Studies 4: 467-482.

2014. Territory, Loss and Identity: The Songs of a Displaced Guru and His Performers. Journal of Folklore and Folkloristics 7.2: 50-68.

2014. Why Do You Go Swimming in the River Full of Algae? Conception and Contraception in Baul Songs and Oral Teachings. Journal of Folklore and Folkloristics 7.1: 9-45.

2014. Searching for the Divine, Handling Mobile Phones: Baul Lyrics and Their Osmotic Response to Globalization. Journal of History and Sociology of South Asia 8.1: 59-88.

2013. Playing the Football of Love on the Field of the Body: The Contemporary Repertoire of Baul Songs, Journal of Religion and the Arts 17.4: 416-451.

2011. “Il Bangladesh in Italia: rilevazioni sul “lemmario dell'uso” della lingua italiana”. ITALS, Didattica e linguistica dell'italiano come lingua straniera. 9. 27. ISSN 2239-9615

2024. “The potential of a sonic turn: Towards an acoustemology of the post-secular.” In Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North. Amsterdam University Press.

with Rohit Singh. 2023. “Introduction: Tantric traditions as lived religion: Re-imagining Tantra with ethnography”. In The Ethnography of Tantra, p. 1-57. SUNY press.

with  E. Hertzman, E. Larson and N. Lang. 2023. “Introduction: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age”. In CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, p. 1-34. University of Hawaii Press.

With Raka Banerjee, Dishani Roy, Fatema Aarshe, Khaled Oli Bin Bhuiyan, Mukul Pandey. 2023. The Sonic and the Somatic: Matua Healing Practices during COVID-19  CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, pp. 144-150. University of Hawaii Press.

2023. Untouchable Kirtan: Sonic liberation on the Andaman Islands. In Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape, edited by Julia Byl and Jim Sykes, 99-119. Oakland: University of California Press.

2022. Singing Tantra: Aural Media and Sonic Soteriology in Bengali Esoteric Lineages. Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies, edited by Glen Hayes and Richard Payne, C37.S1–C37.N31.

2020. Religion, Caste and Displacement: The Matua Community. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Edited by Willem van Schendel.

2020. Dancing Skulls and Red Hibiscus Flowers: Nabarun’s Tantric Imaginaries and the Radical Aesthetics of Subversion. In Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World After Ethics. Edited by Sourit Bhattacharya, Arka Chattopadhyay and Samrat Sengupta, 177-192. New Delhi: Bloomsbury.

2018. Body, Land and Displacement: Songs and Rituals of Embodiment among the Bengali settlers on the Andaman Island. In Makbulnama. Edited by Kazi Abu Zumman and Ajijul Hoque Mondal, 88-101. Kolkata: Bangiya Sahitya Samsad.

2026. Every Matua family experienced multiple and prolonged displacements. /Interviewed by Ritwika Mitra and Abhishek Mukherjee. Focus Magazine.

with Raka Banerjee, Dishani Roy et al. The Sonic and the Somatic: Matua Healing Practices during COVID-19  CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19 research blog. Published on 22 January 2021. 

2020. Religion going viral: Pandemic transformations and ritual performances in Asia . ARIScope. 13 November 2020. 

2020. Spiritualizing Confinement and the Rise of Meditation Apps. CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19 research blog. Published on 19 June 2020.

2020. CoronAsur: Religion, senses and media at the time of the Corona-demon. CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19 research blog. Published on 18 May 2020.

2019. Building Digital Archives: Tools, Techniques and Approaches. Endangered Archives Blog (Official Blog of Endangered Archives Program, British Library). December 6, 2019. 

2018. Folklore in South Asia: The Politics and Ethics of Digital Archives. Special issue on Digital Archives. Café Dissensus. February 1, 2018.

2017. Bengali Settlers in the Andaman Islands: The Performance of Homeland, IIAS Newsletter 77: 4-5.

Review of:  Aniket De, “The Boundary of Laughter: Popular performances across borders in South Asia.” Asian Ethnology 82/1 (2023): 191-195

John Stevens, “Keshab: Bengal’s Forgotten Prophet” International Journal of Hindu Studies 25.3 (2021).

“The Legacy of Vaishnavism in Colonial Bengal” Edited by Ferdinando Sardella and Lucian Wong. Journal of Hindu Studies. Forthcoming.

Carol Salomon, “City of Mirrors: Songs of Lalan Sai” edited by Saymon Zakaria and Keith Cantu. Religions of South Asia. 13.3 (2021): 385-387.

Kristin Hanssen, “Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living with Bengali Bauls.” Asian Ethnology 78/1 (2019): 228-230.

Heidemann, Frank and Philipp Zehmisch, eds. “Manifestations of History: Time, Space, and Community in the Andaman Islands”. Asian Ethnology 76, 1 (2017): 168-171.

Hess, Linda. “Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India”. Journal of Religion and the Arts 20 (2016): 518–521.

Saxena, Neela. “Absent Mother God of the West”.  Rivista di Studi Orientali RSO 89 (2016): 103-5.

Chakraborty, Mridula Nath, ed. “Being Bengali: at Home and in the World”. Rivista di Studi Orientali RSO 88 (2015): 231-233.

2026. (Guest). Sounds of the Mantua with Carola Lorea. (Season 5, Ep.6) [Podcast Episode]. In The Channel, International Institute for Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden.