Renny Thomas

Employment

• New York University Visiting Global Professor
  2025 - 2025
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal Assistant Professor (Sociology & Social Anthropology)
  2021 - Present
• Jesus and Mary College Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology
  2015 - 2021

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru University PhD in Sociology
  2010 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Hinduism and Science: Themes, Texts, and Contexts
  Theology and Science 2026 DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2026.2637224
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• “ Science goes ahead ”: Nehru, Modern Science and the Possible Conversations
  India Review 2025 DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2025.2597542
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• Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai (eds.), Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions: National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 456. ISBN 978-0-8229-4792-9. $65.00 (hardcover).
  The British Journal for the History of Science 2025 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087425000020
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• JPS Uberoi: A beacon for science and technology studies (STS)
  Contributions to Indian Sociology 2025 DOI: 10.1177/00699659241304808
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• Afterword: The Sites of Universalities: Ethnographic Engagements with/of Sciences
  Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 2024 DOI: 10.60827/ZFE/JSCA.V149I1.1800
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• Meeting report: “Religion and technology in an era of rapid digital and climate change”. Conference, 2023, Chennai, IN (hybrid)
  TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis 2024 DOI: 10.14512/tatup.33.1.72
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• Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment
  London: Routledge 2021
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• Atheism in India: Twentieth Century and Beyond
  Cambridge History of Atheism 2021
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• STS, Data Science, and Fake News: Questions and Challenges
  2021
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• Quantum Physics and Colonialism
  Physics Today 2021
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