Steven Ramey is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, where he also is Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Asian Studies. His research emphasizes contemporary practices and identifications in South Asia, and the ways those are contested and represented. He is author of Hindu, Sufi, or Sikh (Palgrave, 2008) and editor of Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion (University of Alabama Press, 2015), Fabricating Difference (Equinox, 2017), and Hinduism in 5 Minutes (Equinox, forthcoming 2022). Ramey is Series Editor of Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation, a book series with Equinox Publishers and has also served as co-editor of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (Brill).