Kathleen
Erndl
Associate
Professor of Religion
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M05
Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Office: 313 Dodd Hall
Phone: (850) 644-0207
Fax: (850) 644-7225
Email: kerndl@mailer.fsu.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Background
Kathleen
M. Erndl (Ph.D. '87, University of Wisconsin, South Asian
Language and Literature: Religions of South Asia) teaches in the
field of South Asian religions, especially Hinduism, as well as
gender and religion, comparative studies, and Sanskrit. Professor
Erndl's publications include Victory to the Mother: The Hindu
Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual and Symbol (Oxford,
1993), a co-edited collection of essays entitled Is the Goddess
a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses (New York
University Press and Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), and articles
on Sakta traditions, spirit possession, women's religious expressions,
methodology, and gender issues in Hinduism. She is currently writing
a book entitled The Play of the Mother: Women, Goddess Possession,
and Power in Hinduism. Other research interests include interactions
between Hinduism and Buddhism in India, cross-cultural appropriations
of Indian goddesses in North America, and Hinduism in the Caribbean.
Professor Erndl has been the recipient of fellowships from the
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities,
Fulbright-Hayes, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Recent
Courses
Undergraduate
- REL2315
Religions of South Asia
- REL3337
Goddesses, Women, and Power in Hinduism
- REL3335
Hindu Texts and Contexts: Ramayana
- REL3145
Gender and Religion
Seminars
- REL5305
Sakta and Tantric Traditions in Hinduism
- REL5354
Gender Studies in Asian Religions Reading Colloquium
- REL5336
Modern Hinduism
- REL6176
Hindu Ethics, Human Rights, and Social Justice in India
- REL6298
Ramayana: Text, Performance, and Ideology
Language
- SAL4100/4101
Elementary Sanskrit
- REL5915
Tutorial in Sanskrit Texts
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