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| Paul B. CourtrightProfessor Office: 404-727-8187 (Office) |
Paul B. Courtright, Professor (1989). Professor Courtright received his B.A. from Grinnell College, M.Div. from Yale, and Ph.D. from Princeton. He had taught previously at Williams College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His teaching interests focus on religions of South Asia, particularly Hinduism; religious change in nineteenth century India, and the history of the study of religion. He is the author of Ganesa: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings (Oxford, 1985), various articles in the Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1986), co-editor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays in Gender, Culture and Religion (Oxford, 1995), and is currently completing The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice (Oxford, forthcoming). He is also conducting research on the life and legacy of Horace Hayman Wilson, an early nineteenth century East India Company official and scholar of Hinduism.
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