January 2011

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Call for Proposals

This Group invites proposals on themes pertinent to understanding Hindu thought, practice, and culture in any of its forms and periods. Please contact listed organizers if you wish to take part in any proposed session. Suggested topics are:

  • Mughal bhakti (Patton Burchett, Columbia University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Kali Yuga (Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Portugal and India (John Hawley, Columbia University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Study of Hinduism in Italy (John E. Cort, Denison University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Roundtable on Raimundo Panikkar (John E. Cort, Denison University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Teaching Hinduism through fiction (Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Hindu theologies — classical and modern (Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; and Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Changing conceptions of Hindu communities (Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Representations of Hindus and Muslims (Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Reevaluating the colonial “rupture” (James W. Laine, Macalester College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • The Ayodhya court ruling (Rupa Viswanath, University of Pennsylvania, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Suicide (William P. Harman, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Hinduism in the Bay Area (Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Gender and performance (Elaine Craddock, Southwestern University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Children in Hinduism — for a possible cosponsored session with the Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation (John Wall, Rutgers University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Other topics are also welcome. Complete session proposals are preferred, but individual paper proposals may also be considered.

Mission

This Group was established in 1997 with the mission of providing a forum within the AAR for the academic study of Hinduism as a distinctive world religious tradition, including but not limited to the geographical region of South Asia. We seek to foster research on all periods and registers of Hindu texts and practices through the presentation of new data, critical analysis, and interpretative strategies, based on textual, sociohistorical, ethnographic, philosophical, theological, and theoretical studies. We are particularly interested in forging connections between the study of Hinduism and other areas of religious studies, and we welcome proposals that can do this.

Anonymity of Review Process

Proposals are anonymous to Chairs and Steering Committee Members during review, but visible to Chairs prior to final acceptance or rejection.

Questions?

Timothy Lubin
Washington and Lee University
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Vijaya Nagarajan
University of San Francisco
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Method of Submission

 

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