Author Meets Critic: Tracy Pintchman’s Goddess Beyond Boundaries

In 2024, Tracy Pintchman published Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple. Drawing on over 15 years of research in a small city in Michigan, Pintchman moves beyond diasporic frames to showcase how a Goddess temple and its community creatively adapt Hindu ideas and practices to their lives in the United States. This panel features 4 scholars, including specialists in urban religion, bhakti traditions, and Caribbean Hinduism, who will reflect upon the significance of this book to the field of North American Hinduisms.