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Wendy Doniger

Religious Studies

#34

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#112

Historical Rank

#16

USA Rank

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Wendy Doniger's Degrees

Bachelors Sanskrit and Indian Studies Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include The Hindus: An Alternative History; Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology, 108 Hymns Translated from the Sanskrit. She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has taught there since 1978. She served as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1998.

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Published Works

The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009) (178)
Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture (1997) (102)
Death, war, and sacrifice : studies in ideology and practice (1993) (64)
Sacrifice and Substitution : Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification (1989) (44)
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (1999) (42)
The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (2000) (41)
The Concept of Duty in South Asia (1980) (35)
Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 (2012) (32)
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade (2010) (19)
Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes (1988) (19)
Britannica encyclopedia of world religions (2006) (15)
POST-MODERN AND -COLONIAL-STRUCTURAL COMPARISONS (2000) (13)
Western Dreams about Eastern Dreams (2001) (12)
Why study dreams? A religious studies perspective. (1993) (11)
God’s Body, or, The Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of the Sexual Body of the Hindu God Shiva (2014) (10)
Presidential Address: “I Have Scinde”: Flogging a Dead (White Male Orientalist) Horse (1999) (10)
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theoretical and actual approaches to myth (2009) (9)
Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial than the Beasts 1 (2014) (8)
The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati (2012) (8)
Misconceptions : Female imaginations and male fantasies in parental imprinting (1998) (8)
From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India (2014) (8)
The Mythology of Masquerading Animals, or, Bestiality (2004) (8)
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions (2010) (7)
Sita and Helen, Ahalya and Alcmena: A Comparative Study (1997) (6)
The economics of ecstasy (2001) (6)
Many masks, many selves (2006) (6)
Eating karma in classical South Asian texts (1999) (6)
Rationalizing the Irrational Other: "Orientalism" and the Laws of Manu (1992) (6)
Purana Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts (1993) (6)
Hinduism by Any Other Name (2016) (5)
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit (2004) (5)
Reading the “Kamasutra”: the strange & the familiar (2007) (5)
Myths and Methods in the Dark (1996) (5)
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry (2017) (4)
Why Should a Priest Tell You Whom to Marry? A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu (1991) (4)
A burnt offering (2002) (4)
Speaking in Tongues: Deceptive Stories about Sexual Deception (1994) (3)
An Alternative Historiography for Hinduism (2009) (3)
Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature 1 (2009) (3)
The Symbolism of Black and White Babies in the Myth of Parental Impression (2015) (2)
Sikh Studies- Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Tradition (1979) (2)
Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India (1998) (2)
Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow 1 (2014) (2)
Perspectives: What Is Myth? (1998) (2)
5.The King and the Corpse and the Rabbi and the Talk-Show Star Zimmer's Legacy to Mythologists and Indologists (1994) (2)
The mythology of the face lift. (2000) (2)
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (2016) (2)
What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History (2016) (2)
When a Lingam is Just a Good Cigar: Psychoanalysis and Hindu Sexual Fantasies (2018) (1)
Roundtable on Outrage, Scholarship, and the Law in India A Response (2016) (1)
The Control of Addiction in Ancient India 1 (2014) (1)
On Translating the Kamasutra: A Gurudakshina for Daniel H. H. Ingalls (2001) (1)
Structuralist Universals versus Psychoanalytic Universals (1989) (1)
The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the Academy (2015) (1)
Sex, lies, and tall tales (1996) (1)
Bisexuality in the Mythology of Ancient India (2005) (1)
Logos and Mythos: A Response to Walter Burkert (1999) (1)
Shadows of the Ramayana 1 (2014) (0)
Sacrifice and Substitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
My Life in Wonderland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll (2022) (0)
From Great Neck to Swift Hall: Confessions of a Reluctant Historian of Religions (2000) (0)
Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity 1 (2014) (0)
Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives (2017) (0)
Are Diamonds a Woman’s Best Friend? (2017) (0)
Doniger O'flaherty on Doniger (2014) (0)
Chapter Four. You Can’t Get Here From There: The Logical Paradox Of Ancient Indian Creation Myths (2007) (0)
The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2017) (0)
Chapter 2. Jewels of Recognition and Paternity in Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu Traditions (2021) (0)
Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology 1 (2014) (0)
The Ambivalence of Ahimsa 1 (2014) (0)
Jewels of Recognition and Paternity in Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu Traditions (2021) (0)
Book Review Reading Buddhist Sanskrit Texts: An Elementary Grammatical Guide. By K.L. Dhammajoti. Hong Kong: Buddha-dharma Centre of Hong Kong (2013) (0)
You can'T get here from there: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths 1 (2014) (0)
The Forest-Dweller 1 (2014) (0)
review at William Dalrymple, Nine Lives. In search of the sacred in modern India (2011) (0)
Why God changed his mind about Isaac (1993) (0)
Modi's visit to silicon valley (2015) (0)
The Anthropologist and the Native: The Mythology of the Kāmasūtra (2011) (0)
What reason promises (2016) (0)
The Donigers of Great Neck (2019) (0)
Kenan Malik: Pandaemonium: fear and free speech (2014) (0)
Myth, Reason, and Rationality (2016) (0)
Index of Authors and Subjects (1980) (0)
The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva 1 (2014) (0)
Bisexuality and Transsexuality among the Hindu Gods 1 (2014) (0)
Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance 1 (2014) (0)
Women in the Mahabharata 1 (2014) (0)
Myths as Metaphors for Radical Evil (2007) (0)
Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) (2017) (0)
Austin Beta-Gamma Hand and Foot Checker Test Reports (1949) (0)
Menander, Terence and the rape of the clever wife (2018) (0)
Corinne G. Dempsey Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion (2014) (0)
Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sanskrit Texts 1 (2014) (0)
The Ring Fished from the Ocean (2017) (0)
After the War (2022) (0)
Babies in the Myth (2016) (0)
Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies 1 (2014) (0)
Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth (2017) (0)
Juliane Schober BUDDHIST JUST RULE AND BURMESE NATIONAL CULTURE: STATE PATRONAGE OF THE CHINESE TOOTH (2008) (0)
The Oldest Deception (2001) (0)
Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists? 1 (2014) (0)
‘I Have Scinde’: Orientalism and Guilt 1 (2014) (0)
You Can't Make an Omelette 1 (2014) (0)
How the Arthashastra and the Kamasutra Got Away with Their Critiques of Dharma (2018) (0)
The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana 1 (2014) (0)
Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa (1915-1992) (1993) (0)
Eating Karma 1 (2014) (0)
Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't all about Sex 1 (2014) (0)
The History of Ekalavya 1 (2014) (0)
Intimations of Mortality: Dreams of a Buddhist Anthropologist (2014) (0)
Going with the Flow (2004) (0)
The Mythology of the Kamasutra 1 (2014) (0)
Invisibility and Sexual Violence in Indo-European Mythology (2017) (0)
Afterword: Cruelty and the Imagination of Animals in India (2015) (0)
The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow 1 (2014) (0)
Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology (2022) (0)
Forgetting and Re-Awakening to Incarnation 1 (2014) (0)
The Rape of the Clever Wife (2017) (0)
The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
11 Report of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Security on Campus and in the Neighborhood 11 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for Winter and Spring Quarters 1995 — (2001) (0)
Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares (0)
Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances (2017) (0)
God's Body, or, the Lingam made Flesh: Conflicts Over the Representation of Shiva 1 (2014) (0)
Can Memory Fill In Gaps of Memory? Applications of the Cognitive Science of Religion to the History of Religions (2016) (0)
An open letter in support of Jason Rezaian (2015) (0)
The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology 1 (2014) (0)
Barbara Stoler Miller (1940–1993) (1993) (0)
The origin of heresy in Hindu mythology (1973) (0)
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace (2017) (0)
Sacred Cows and Beefeaters 1 (2014) (0)
Against Dharma (2019) (0)
Upanisads . The World's Classics. Translated by Patrick Olivelle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. lx, 446 pp. $6.95 (paper). (1997) (0)
The Third Nature : Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra 1 (2014) (0)
Assume the Position: The Fight Over the Body of Yoga 1 (2014) (0)
Wrecked Cityscapes and Aesthetic Improvement: Discreet Charms of a Globalizing Metropolis. Tales from Mumbai: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy (2015) (0)
Curriculum Vitae of Lorraine Daston (2016) (0)
Indra as the Stallion's Wife 1 (2014) (0)
Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory (2017) (0)
The Mythology of Horses in India 1 (2014) (0)
Siegfried’s Ring and Wagner’s Ring (2017) (0)
Three (or more) Forms of the Three (or more)–Fold Path in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
Death and Rebirthin Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)

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The Hindus: An Alternative History

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