John E. Llewellyn -- Bibliography
Associate Professor at SMSU (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1990).  Published on the religions of South Asia; fundamentalism and world
religions; the status of women in India; pilgrimage. E-mail: jel807f@smsu.edu

 

Personal Bibliography

The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement:  A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism (Delhi:  Manohar, 1993).
Based in part on fieldwork conducted in India from 1985 through 1987, The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement offers a new perspective on the Arya Samaj, comparing it with fundamentalist groups in other religious traditions.

"From Interpretation to Reform:  Dayanand's Reading of the Vedas," in Authority, Anxiety and Canon:  Essays in Vedic Interpretation, ed. Laurie L. Patton (Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1994), 235-251.

"The Autobiography of a Female Renouncer,"  in Religions of India in Practice, ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1995), 462-472

"Hindu Fundamentalism:  The Once and Future Oxymoron," Critical Review of Books in Religion 1996:  83-104.

Book review of John Stratton Hawley, ed., Fundamentalism and Gender, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society 116.1 (1996):  180-181.

Book review of Harjot Oberoi, The Construction of Religious Boundaries, in The Journal of Religion 11.1 (1997):  182-183.

The Legacy of Women's Uplift in India:  Contemporary Women Leaders in the Arya Samaj (Delhi:  Sage Publications, 1998).
The Legacy of Women's Uplift in India reflects upon the tensions inherent in the programs for women in the Arya Samaj, an important reform movement, by analyzing the lives and work of contemporary women leaders.

The Kumbh Mela Web Site at < http://www.smsu.edu/RelSt/kumbhmela.html >, an extensive site about the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest pilgrimage festival, which was updated from India while the festival was taking place in the spring of 1998.

"The Center Way Out There:  A Review Article of Recent Books on Hindu Pilgrimage," International Journal of Hindu Studies 2, 2 (August 1998):  249-265.

"The Clinging Spider Web of Context:  A Review of The Implied Spider by Wendy Doniger," Religious Studies Review 26, 1 (January 2000):  43-48.

Contributor to a review symposium on Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr., Where's the Leraning in Service-Learning? in the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion 29, 3 (September 2000):  72-74.

"Pilgrimage as a Bounded Entity:  A Review Essay," Religious Studies Review 27, 1 (January 2001), 39-46.

"(Foot)Notes on Orientalism and Religion," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 13,4 (2001), forthcoming.

 

 

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