Auteur: Susan Visvanathan

Susan Visvanathan is Chairperson, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. From 1983 till 1997, she was lecturer in Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi. She was fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, from 1989 to 1992; honorary fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, from 1990 to 1995; Charles Wallace Fellow to Queen”s University, Belfast, in 1997; visiting professor to Maison des Sciences de L”Hommes, Paris, in 2004; and is Consultant Editor, Contributions to Indian Society. She is the author of The Christians of Kerala, An Ethnography of Mysticism, Structure and Transformation and Friendship, Interiority and Mysticism