Editing Kathryn Spellman Poots

<br />{{Infobox person
|name=Kathryn-Spellman-Poots |image=Kathryn-Spellman-Poots.jpg|image_size=|caption=|birth_date=|birth_place=|death_date=|nationality=|religion=|alma_mater=|occupation=Associate Professor and Author|personal website=|spouse=|parents=|children=|awards=}}'''Kathryn Spellman-Poots''' is Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University Institute. 

== Education ==

* Ph.D in politics and sociology, Birkbeck college, university of London, 1995 -2000
* MA  in politics and sociology, Birkbeck college, university of London, 1994 – 1995
* BA honors in combined social sciences , Richmond I University, 1991 -1994
* MA in sociology, Marquette University ,1989-1991

== Books and Articles ==

* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b683 The politics aesthetics of global protest: the Arab spring and beyond, Edinburgh University press, Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb, Kathryn Spellman-Poots, 2014]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgtj5 Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual performances and everyday practices, Edinburgh University Press, Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret, Paulo G. Pinto, Kathryn Spellman-Poots 201]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1btbwd7 Religion and nation: Iranian Local and transnational networks in Britain, Berghahn books, Oxford and New York,2005]

== Her vision towards Ashura ==
In one of Kathryn Spellman’s books, Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual performances and every day practices, she started the 4<sup>th</sup> chapter with this title: ”Manifestation of [[Ashura]] among young British [[Shiʿa|Shi’is]]”. In this chapter, she describes the way that British [[Shiʿism|Shi’is]] practice religious rituals of “Ashura” through public performances in British society.

== Sources ==

* [https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/faculty-/kathryn-spellman-poots Kathryn Spellman Poots' personal website]
* [https://biography.omicsonline.org/pakistan/aga-khan-university/kathryn-spellman-poots-1530994 Kathryn Spellman Poots' personal website]

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