Cynthia Ann Humes
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Cynthia Ann Humes's Degrees
- PhD Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Masters Religious Studies University of Chicago
- Bachelors Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cynthia Ann Humes is a professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. The college lists her research interests as: History of Hinduism in America, Modern Hindu Goddess Worship, and Gender and Religion. She is also an author, the college's Chief Technology Officer and a Commissioner on the Claremont City Planning Commission.
Cynthia Ann Humes's Published Works
Published Works
- Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (1993) (78)
- Hindutva, Mythistory, and Pseudoarchaeology (2012) (22)
- Gurus in America (2005) (19)
- The Social Role of the Gita: How and Why (1996) (8)
- Living Banaras : Hindu religion in cultural context (1995) (8)
- The Transcendental Meditation Organization And Its Encounter With Science (2010) (3)
- BECOMING MALE Salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and Buddhism (2002) (3)
- Sacred Schisms: Schisms within Hindu guru groups: the Transcendental Meditation movement in North America (2009) (2)
- The text and temple of the great goddess : the Devī-māhātmya and the Vindhyācal temple of Mirzapur (1990) (2)
- Transcendent in America: Hindu Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion. By Lola Williamson (2010) (1)
- Breaking boundaries with the goddess : new directions in the study of Śāktism : essays in honor of Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya (2009) (1)
- Om Shalom: Judaism and Krishna Consciousness (review) (2012) (1)
- The Transcendental Meditation Movement (2023) (1)
- The Problem of Pluralism : Teaching Islamic Diversity . . . vii (0)
- Book reviews and notices (1989) (0)
- Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee . Edited by Kim A. Wagner. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi, 318 pp. $49.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Assemblage . By Amit S. Rai. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xii, 303 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
- Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal . By June McDaniel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 356 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). (2006) (0)
- "Hindutva's Rediscovery/Appropriation of its Ancient Past (2017) (0)
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