Religious Studies: Anne Feldhaus

Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Arrived at ASU: 1981

Office: ECA 339
Phone: (480) 965-4749 or 965-7145
E-mail: Anne.Feldhaus@asu.edu
CV: (PDF)

Research Interests

Specializes in folk Hinduism, medieval Hinduism and religious geography.

Biography

(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Professor Feldhaus works on the religious traditions of the Marathi-language region of western India. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Senior Research Fellow for the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Courses Taught

REL 100 - Religions of the World
REL 294 - Intro to South Asia
REL 350 - Hinduism
REL 394 - Women and Goddesses in India
REL 494/598 - Religio-political Thought in Modern India
REL 591 - Seminar on Religious Geography

Selected Publications

Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in Maharashtra. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

A Dictionary of Old Marathi. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1999/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

With S. G. Tulpule. In the Absence of God: The Early Years of an Indian Sect. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

The Deeds of God in Rddhipur. New York: Oxford, University Press, 1984.

Translation of Gunther Sontheimer, Pastoral Deities in Western India. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1984.

"On my Way of Living in India," http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/meister/feldhaus.html