The Helen Crovetto Award

Abstract

The co-general editors of Nova Religio are pleased to announce the winner of the Seventh Helen Crovetto Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements with Ties to South Asia. The award was established in 2010 by Helen Crovetto to encourage research and articles on new religions that originate in South Asia, as well as on new religious movements that were inspired in part or whole by religions from South Asia. The winner was selected by Hugh Urban, Scott Lowe, Andrea Jain, and Catherine Wessinger, members of Nova Religio’s editorial board with expertise in South Asian religions, from articles appearing in volume 24 of the journal.Irina Sadovina receives the award for her article, “Legitimating New Religiosity in Contemporary Russia: ‘Vedic Wisdom’ Under Fire” (https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.24.3.6), which appeared in Nova Religio 24, no. 3 (February 2021).We thank Helen Crovetto for her generosity in providing the opportunity to encourage and reward authors for exceptional articles on new religious movements with ties to South Asia. We look forward to recognizing outstanding work in this area in the future.