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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Borayin Larios
Borayin Larios
T: +43-1-4277-43512
https://borayinlarios.academia.edu/

Consultation hours: By arrangement.

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Larios, B. (2026). Holy Birthdays and the Sharing of Streets in Two Neighborhoods of Old Pune, Maharashtra. Religions, 17(6), 1-18. Article 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17060662
Larios, B. (2026). Dominik A. Haas Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023. 385 pp. Open access. ISBN 978-3-7001-9390-6. Schweizer Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques Suisses, 80(1), 345-348. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2026-0001
Larios, B., & Rajopadhye, H. (2023). Dattātreya‘s Dwelling Place: Socio-religious Dynamics at a Contemporary Urban Temple under a Holy Tree. Cracow Indological Studies, 25(1), 185-213. https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.25.2023.01.06
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. (2021). The Birthday Party in Saffron – Pune’s Śivājī Jayantī Celebration in 2020. Dastavezi. The Audio-Visual South Asia, 3, 23-39. https://doi.org/10.11588/dasta.2021.1.15246
Larios, B. (2021). Vision, worship, and the transmutation of the Vedas into sacred scripture. The publication of Bhagavān vedah in 1970: The Publication of Bhagavān Vedaḥ in 1970 . Philological Encounters, 6(1-2), 15-42. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10016
Larios, B. (2021). Interview für die Ö1-Sendereihe TAO-Aus den Religionen der Welt "Yoga - Zwischen Lebensphilosophie und Fitness". Radio show
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. (2019). Kim Siebenhüner, Die Spur der Juwelen. Materielle Kultur und transnationale Verbindungen zwischen Indien und Europa in der Frühen Neuzeit, (Köln: Böhlau, 2018). Francia Recensio, (4). https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2019.4.68464
Larios, B. (2019). Mani Rao’s Living Mantra. Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2018. 215 pages. $89.99. Hardcover. ISBN 9783319963907. Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/living-mantra
Larios, B., & Balkaran, R. (2019). In conversation with Borayin Larios (by Raj Balkaran) for the New Books Network. "Embodying the Vedas. Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra.". Multimedia output, New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/borayin-larios-embodying-the-vedas-traditional-vedic-schools-of-contemporary-maharashtra-de-gruyter-2017/
Larios, B. (2018). From the Heavens to the Streets: Pune’s Wayside Shrines. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 18. https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.4549
Larios, B., & Voix, R. (2018). Introduction. Wayside Shrines in India: An Everyday Defiant Religiosity. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 18. https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.4546
Larios, B. (2017). Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra. DE GRUYTER OPEN LTD. https://doi.org/10.1515/978311051732
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. (2017). Fuller, C. J. and H. Narasimhan. 2014. Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-Class Caste. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). International Journal of Hindu Studies, 21, 243–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-017-9213-1
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.
Larios, B. (2013). The Vedamūrti: Embodying the Veda in Contemporary Maharashtra. International Journal of Hindu Studies, 17(3), 287–312. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-014-9141-2
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Inscribing Rām: Bhakti Yoga, Material Practice, and Digital Circulation in Contemporary Hinduism

Larios, B. (Speaker)

28 May 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Writing the Name, Banking Devotion: Visual Mantras in Contemporary Vārāṇasī

Larios, B. (Speaker)

21 May 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Collaborating with Indian Universities: Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 May 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Beyond Sound The Material Lives of Mantras in Contemporary South Asia

Larios, B. (Speaker)

24 Mar 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Embodying the Veda, Revisited: Orality, Sound and Sustainable Knowledge Transmission

Larios, B. (Speaker)

15 Mar 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Mantras as Media: Sound, Matter, and World Making

Larios, B. (Keynote speaker)

5 Dec 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Mantras as Media: Sound, Matter, and World-Making

Larios, B. (Speaker)

4 Dec 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Ethics in Practice: Decolonizing Fieldwork in the MANTRAMS Project

Larios, B. (Speaker)

10 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Skibidi Mantras: Viral Magic, Digital Rituals, and the Playful Evolution of Sacred Sound

Larios, B. (Speaker)

1 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Mantras Beyond Sound: Media, Materiality, and Multisensory Practice

Larios, B. (Speaker)

28 Aug 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

From Riverbanks to Archives: Documenting Mantras in Varanasi and South Asia

Larios, B. (Speaker)

26 Aug 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Embodying the Divine in the Streets of Pune

Larios, B. (Speaker)

21 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

ERC Synergy Grants: Experiences from the MANTRAMS Project

Larios, B. (Speaker)

15 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Information workshop on ERC Synergy Grant [SyG]

Larios, B. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Multisensory Mantras: Introducing the MANTRAMS project

Larios, B. (Speaker)

5 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

MANTRAMS – Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia

Larios, B. (Speaker), Moore Gereity, F. (Speaker) & Lorea, C. E. (Speaker)

10 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Prácticas globales, adaptaciones locales: Yoga y apropiación cultural (Spanish)

Larios, B. (Speaker)

6 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

The OMnibus of Mantras: Creating a Multimedia Digital Archive for Mantra Research

Larios, B. (Speaker) & Acri, A. (Speaker)

8 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“The Hats We Wear”—Academics and Practitioners in Yoga Studies

Larios, B. (Speaker)

13 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Book Discussant: Ein Text in Bewegung. Das Yogasūtra als Praxiselement im Ashtanga Yoga (2023). Author: Laura von Ostrowski

Larios, B. (Speaker)

30 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Jai Hanumān. Jai Coatlicue! Negotiating Bhakti Yoga and Aztec Devotion at the Jamadi Center, Mexico

Larios, B. (Speaker)

23 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Printed Reverbrations. The contemporary Revival of Vedic Ritual and the Metamorphosis of Vedic Recitation.

Larios, B. (Speaker)

20 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

vedasāram idam tantram: Tracing Vedic Influences in Early Śaiva Tantric Traditions

Larios, B. (Speaker)

5 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

22 Nov 2022 → 25 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

20 Sept 2022 → 22 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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 presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

31 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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 presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

15 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

9 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Manifesting Divinity in the Everyday – Pune’s Wayside Shrines

Larios, B. (Speaker)

28 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

18 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

19 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

12 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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 presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Defiant Religion : Wayside Shrines in Pune

Larios, B. (Speaker)

21 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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 2020 → 18 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Yoga Scholar-Practitioner

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

28 Mar 2019 → 29 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

22 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Larios, B. (Speaker)

10 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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)

1/09/24 → 31/08/30

Project: Research funding

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2C-O1-10

T: +43-1-4277-43512

borayin.larios@univie.ac.at