Asie du Sud

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Connecticut College

lbhar@connsoll.edu

5507 Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320 USA

Research in Rajasthan.

Recent activities include writing a book on hero cults (tentatively
entitled Lasting Impressions) and organizing with David Shulman the
"Conference on Narrative Framing" (Jerusalem: Academy of Sciences and
Humanities).

Teach the religions of South Asia.

The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Veneration
(New York: Oxford University Press, in press)

* Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in
Contemporary Narratives
(Berkeley: University of California Press)

* a volume Paul Courtright and I edited,
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Culture, and Religion
(New York: Oxford University Press)

South Asia ; Rajasthan ; gender ; Indian ; religion ; Rajput women ; Hindu marriage ; hero cults.