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Caleb Simmons

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Religious Studies / Classics | Director, Interdisciplinary Studies | Executive Director, Online Education

Religious Studies and Classics

Collaboration(1)

Andrea McComb Sanchez

Publications(74)

Recent

The Cost of High Production Quality: A Preliminary Discussion of the Value of Production in Asynchronous Online Modalities

2022

online learning, production quality, cost analysis, asynchronous modalities, value assessment

Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad

2022

folklore, mythology, social change, local culture, singing tradition

Cāmuṇḍi and Uttanahaḷḷi: Sisters of the Mysuru Hills

2021

cultural heritage, regional history, sisterhood, folklore, local traditions

Elaine M. Fisher, Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

2021

hindu pluralism, religion, public sphere, early modern, south india

Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara’s Ragaḷegaḷu: by Gil Ben-Herut, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, xiii+ 276 pp. US 99.00 …

2021

religious studies, cultural studies, literature, history, language studies

Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal. By Varuni Bhatia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii, 291 pp. ISBN: 9780190686246 …

2021

vaishnavism, cultures of devotion, colonial bengal, religious studies, cultural history

Devotional Foundations of Earthly Sovereignty: Conceptualizing Sovereignty and the Role of Devotion in Narrative Political Theology in Premodern India

2021

political theology, devotion, sovereignty, premodern india, narrative

Devotional Sovereignty: Kingshiand Religion in India

2020

religion, sovereignty, kingship, india, devotional

Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, and the Unraveling of Nepal’s Hindu Monarchy, by Anne T Mocko

2020

nepal, hinduism, monarchy, rituals, politics

Subtle subversions: resisting colonialism through religion

2020

colonialism, religion, resistance, subversion, culture