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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Borayin Larios
Borayin Larios

Consultation hours: By arrangement.

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Larios, B. (2023). Rejecting Reform and Defending One’s Dharma: The Dharmatattvanirnaya of Vāsudevaśāstrī Abhyaṅkar (1863-1942). In C. Barois, & S. D'Intino (Eds.), Visages du dharma (Purushartha ed., Vol. 39, pp. 299). Editions de l’EHESS.

Larios, B. (2022). “This is my Shirdi”: Street-shrines and Sai Baba’s Popular Omnipresence. In S. Srinivas, N. Jeychandran, & A. Roberts (Eds.), Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence (1 ed.). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003229902




Larios, B., & Gerety, F. (2021). Third Episode: Hindu Street Shrines. Multimedia output, Brown University.

Larios, B., & Singleton, M. (2020). The Scholar-Practitioner of Yoga in the Western Academy. In S. Newcombe, & K. O`Brien-Kop (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (pp. 37-50). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Yoga-and-Meditation-Studies/Newcombe-OBrien-Kop/p/book/9781138484863#sup







Larios, B. (2017). Elusive Gemstone Mines: the Red Garnet Industry in Contemporary Rajasthan. In A. Hilgner, S. Greiff, & D. Quast (Eds.), Gemstones in the First Millennium AD Mines, Trade, Workshops, and Symbolism (RGZM – TAGUNGEN ed., Vol. 30, pp. 7-19). Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums .


Larios, B. (2016). Trends of standardization and institutionalization in the transmission of the Vedas: Examples from contemporary Maharashtra. In J. E. M. Houben, J. Rotaru, & M. Witzel (Eds.), Vedic Śākhās: Past, Present, Future.: Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest 2011. (pp. 597-612). Harvard University Press.


Reiter, N., Hellwig, O., Frank, A., Gossmann, I., Larios, B., Rodrigues, J., & Zeller, B. (2011). Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions. In Language Technology for Cultural Heritage: Selected Papers from the LaTeCH Workshop Series (pp. 171–193). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20227-8_10

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Gaṇeśa: A Window into Contemporary Hinduism through Sacred Texts, Practices, and Material Culture

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Holy Birthdays and Sharing of Streets in two Neighborhoods of Old Pune, Maharashtra

Larios, B. (Speaker)

22 Nov 202225 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tuning the body with healing sounds and potent vibrations – Mantras in Mexican Yoghism

Larios, B. (Speaker)

20 Sept 202222 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Primordial Lord in the Parking Lot. Layers of Religious Coexistence in Pune, Maharashtra

Larios, B. (Speaker)

1 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Eating for the Nation – The Biopolitics of Consumerism in Contemporary India

Larios, B. (Speaker)

31 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Textuality, Performativity, and Materiality: The case of Gaṇeśa from the Brahmin's Mouth to the Streets

Larios, B. (Speaker)

17 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Labels and Boxes - The Category of the Scholar-Practitioner in Yoga Studies

Larios, B. (Speaker)

15 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Divine Thief and the Solidification of Dairy: Kṛṣṇa’s Butterball in Mahabalipuram

Larios, B. (Speaker)

9 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Manifesting Divinity in the Everyday – Pune’s Wayside Shrines

Larios, B. (Speaker)

28 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Hinduismus versus Hindutva. Indien im Griff der Hindu-Nationalisten?

Larios, B. (Speaker)

18 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Ikade - Tikade : Omnipresent Sacredness. The wayside Shrines of Pune

Larios, B. (Speaker)

19 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Rhythms of Everyday Religion: Sharing Space in a Neighborhood of Old Pune

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Übergange oraler Traditionen in die Schriften der Hinduwelt – Hindunationalismus und die religionsplurale Gesellschaft

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Textualität, Performativität und Materialität: Wie Gaṇeśa vom Mund des Brahmanen in die Straßen kommt

Larios, B. (Speaker)

15 Dec 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Defiant Religion : Wayside Shrines in Pune

Larios, B. (Speaker)

21 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When Sacred Sound is Worthy of Worship - Songs for the Vedas in the Tradition of Guru Gaṅgeśvarānand Mahārāj (1881-1992)

Larios, B. (Speaker)

17 Jan 202018 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Yoga Scholar-Practitioner

Larios, B. (Invited speaker) & Singleton, M. (Invited speaker)

28 Mar 201929 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Rhythms of Everyday Religion: Sharing Space in a Neighborhood of Old Pune

Larios, B. (Speaker)

22 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Rebirth, Reform, Revivalism – The Game of Tropes in 19th century Maharashtra

Larios, B. (Speaker)

10 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mantras in Religion, Media and Society in Global Southern Asia (MANTRAMS)

Larios, B. (Project Lead), Bhattacharyya, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Constantini, L. M. (Scientific Project Staff), Goet, P. S. (Scientific Project Staff) & Pruthi, K. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/09/2431/08/30

Project: Research funding


Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

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