In her research she focuses on the cultural politics of religion and the processes of cultural globalization through an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of ideology, experience and subjectivity. Her book Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement (Columbia University Press 2010) tells the promising and problematic story of a rapidly globalizing Indic sect. She is currently working on Threshold of Faith: Reframing Innovative Religion and Ambivalent Globalization in Bangalore City, a manuscript that explores the nature of religious meaning and knowledge in Hindu temples in an era of intense globalization.