Responding to the Wendy Doniger Controversy: The Problems and Possibilities in the Academic Study of Religion

The controversy over Penguin India withdrawing Wendy Doniger's book, announced in February 2014, provides an occasion to consider the problems and possibilities within the academic study of religion. As the controversy centered on representations of what both Doniger and her opponents termed Hi...

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Main Author: Ramey, Steven W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2014
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 37-39
Further subjects:B Conflict
B Social Construction
B Hindus
B Doniger
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