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Steven Ramey
Assistant Professor
Religions of Asia, Diaspora Indian Religions and Global Identities,
Indian Identities in the US South
Office Phone: 348-4218
email: sramey@bama.ua.edu
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Since the Fall of 2006, Prof. Ramey has planned
our public events.
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Click the book cover to learn more about
Prof. Ramey's first book...
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Prof. Ramey has also published his work
in the following periodicals (click the covers to learn more)...
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Prof. Ramey also has chapters in the following
edited works...
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Religion
in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts
(2005)
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Encyclopedia
of Religion in the South, 2d ed. (2005)
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And he has reviewed in such journals as...
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Steven Ramey, who joined
the faculty as Assistant Professor in the Fall 2006, completed
his Ph.D. in the religions of South Asia, especially focusing
on Hinduism and Islam, at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a M.Div. from
Emory
University in Atlanta and a B.A. in History from Furman
University in Greenville, South Carolina. He has taught
previously at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke
and Furman University.
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Dr. Ramey's primary research focuses on the contemporary formation
of religious practices in contexts of migration, particularly
analyzing the contestations surrounding subgroups within a
religion. He is continuing extensive research with people
from the region of Sindh
who assert a clear Hindu identification but whose practices,
which incorporate Hindu deities and texts, the Guru Granth
Sahib of Sikhism, and Sufi Muslim saints, lead others to question
the Hindu identification of the Sindhis. He is also researching
South Asian religions in the southeastern United States, especially
focusing on Indo-Caribbean Hindus and Sindhi Hindus in this
context. He uses the case of the Sindhi Hindus, Indo-Caribbean
Hindus, and other subgroups to analyze the ways religious
boundaries are constructed and contested in both academic
studies and contemporary societies and the impact of those
processes on minority groups.
Using his ethnographic work in India and the Southeastern
United States, he has published and presented on the ways
Sindhi Hindus construct their traditions in various contexts,
represent themselves to non-Sindhis, and negotiate the challenges
that their minority position creates. His book, Hindu
Sufi or Sikh: Contested Practices and Identifications of Sindhi
Hindus in India and Beyond, is scheduled for publication
in October 2008 with Palgrave Macmillan Press.
Dr. Ramey also serves as the Chair of the History of Religions
(to be renamed Religions of Asia) section of the American
Academy of Religions Southeast and is a member of the Steering
Committee for the North
American Hinduism Consultation of the AAR.
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A recent copy of Prof. Ramey's c.v.
can be found here
(PDF).
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Courses
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Among the courses that Prof. Ramey teaches are:
REL 100 Introduction to the Study of Religion
REL 208 Hinduism
REL 210 Buddhism
REL 220 Survey
of Asian Religions
REL 236 Islam
REL 370 Survey of
Islamic Traditions
REL 373 Advanced
Studies in Asian Religions
REL 483
Seminar in Asian Religions
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