Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (born November 20, 1940) 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.[2] She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has taught there since 1978.[2] She served as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1998.[3]
^Curriculum Vitae, uchicago.edu; accessed June 16, 2016.
^ abShrimali 2010, p. 67.
^"Board of Directors: Past Presidents". Association for Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
WendyDoniger O'Flaherty (born November 20, 1940) is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit...
America. In early 2000s Malhotra started writing articles criticising WendyDoniger and related scholars, claiming that she applied Freudian psycho-analysis...
Taylor & Francis. pp. 252–5. ISBN 978-1-884964-04-6. Carmel Berkson; WendyDoniger; George Michell (1999). Elephanta: The Cave of Śiva. Princeton University...
O'Flaherty, WendyDoniger (1981). Śiva, the erotic ascetic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-520250-3. O'Flaherty, WendyDoniger (2013). On Hinduism...
O'Flaherty, WendyDoniger (1981). Śiva, the erotic ascetic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195202503. O'Flaherty, WendyDoniger (2013). On Hinduism...
for which a man is allowed to seduce a married woman". According to WendyDoniger, the Kamasutra teaches adulterous sexual liaison as a means for a man...
York Times and Newsweek magazine. In March 2010, Shukla debated with WendyDoniger on elements of one of her books on a Washington Post sponsored blog...
ambivalent about these results. In reviewing a book by Parpola in 2017, WendyDoniger wrote: "I have supported the thesis that there is some form of continuity...
region was being ruled by the Bengal Sultanate or the Mughal Empire. WendyDoniger dates it to sometime between 1500 AD and 1700 AD. It has a floruit of...
University of New York Press. pp. 183–185. ISBN 978-0-7914-5386-5. WendyDoniger O'Flaherty (1988), Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism, Manchester...
supernatural entities found in Romanian folklore For example, according to WendyDoniger (Doniger, "Foreword to the 2004 Edition", Eliade, Shamanism, p. xv.), Eliade...
scholars have urged caution in interpretation. The American Indologist WendyDoniger wrote in 2011 that while "several generations of scholars" had taken...
television director WendyDoniger (born 1940), American Indologist David D. Doniger & Company This page lists people with the surname Doniger. If an internal...
followed by a collection of responses by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, WendyDoniger and Barbara Smuts. It was published by Princeton University Press as...
likely composed in Bengal. Its dating floruit is the 18th-century. WendyDoniger dates the Kalki Mythology containing Kalki Purana to between 1500 and...
deities and forms of worship became adapted to northern Sanskrit forms." WendyDoniger: "If Sanskritization has been the main means of connecting the various...
composition that likely followed the epic. The Markandeya Purana, states WendyDoniger, is probably from c. 250 CE, with the exception of the Devi Mahatmya...
Māyā, however this does not mean the universe is considered as unreal. WendyDoniger explains, "to say that the universe is an illusion (māyā) is not to...
over the vicious. Robert S Ellwood & Gregory D Alles 2007, p. 126. WendyDoniger 1999, p. 306. Singh, Moirangthem Kirti (1998). "Recent Researches in...
religious sects in China, including the White Lotus movement. According to WendyDoniger, Manichaeism may have continued to exist in the modern-East Turkestan...
diarrhea instead of doing his prison duties. Belphegor's prime Numbers 25 WendyDoniger (1999). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions. Merriam-Webster...
Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation, Indologist WendyDoniger said reviewers of the late 1950s had described the film's theme as "a...
New York: Pantheon Books. p. 283. ISBN 0-394-74018-1. O'Flaherty, WendyDoniger (1981). Śiva: The Erotic Ascetic. London & New York: Oxford University...
statement of oneness in Sikhism, that is 'there is one God'. According to WendyDoniger, the phrase is a compound of ik ("one" in Punjabi) and onkar, canonically...
14 June 2023. Doniger, Wendy (2016). Redeeming the Kamasutra. Oxford University Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-0-19-049928-0. WendyDoniger O'Flaherty (1988)...
Smarta Śruti Shastra Sutra Yuga dharma Śāstra pramāṇam in Hinduism WendyDoniger O'Flaherty (1988), Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism, Manchester...
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