What can temple architecture, iconography and texts tell us about South Indian cultural shifts since the 10th century?
Leslie Orr
- Professor
- Department of Religions and Cultures
- devadasis
- gender and sexuality46
- pre-colonial South Asia
- Middle Ages9
- medieval Tamil Nadu
- temple architecture
- iconography2
- epigraphy
- material religion9
- ritual12
- food studies18
- India8
- history of religions5
- Jainism
- Buddhism4
- Hinduism3
- interactions with Islam3
- South Indian sectarian movements
- Indian cosmologies
- women and religion5
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Naftali Cohn
ancient Jewish texts, Mishnah, ritual
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Carly Daniel-Hughes
early Christianity, gender and sexuality, human body
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Sowparnika Balaswaminathan
material culture, nationalism, postcoloniality
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Norma Joseph
religion and gender, Judaism, food studies
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Sarah Ghabrial
African studies, Middle Eastern studies, Islamic law
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Nabeel Hamid
early modernity, philosophy of science, nature
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Rhona Richman Kenneally
food studies, built environment, material culture
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Marc des Jardins
Tibet, Bön religion, cultural studies
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Trichur Rukmani
yoga, Vedanta, ethics
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Rachel Berger
South Asia, history of medicine, queer theory
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Shannon McSheffrey
medieval Europe, Tudor England, legal history
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Steven Stowell
Renaissance art, sacred art, medieval art