User:Abecedare/WD

Page for gathering sources and material for the Reception section of the Wendy Doniger article. Feel free to add sources, quotes, etc; comments and suggestions are better placed on the talk page.

Sources

The classification below is simply for convenience and to provide an easy check of areas that we have sufficient sources for and ones that need further literature survey; it is understood that several references will cross boundaries. Secondly, while we should try to keep out blatantly unreliable or irrelevant references from this list, inclusion is not a certification of reliability (i.e., lets not start arguments over the quality of each included source just yet).

Influence

From Great Neck to Swift Hall: Confessions of a reluctant historian of religions, Wensy Doniger, in The Craft of Religious Studies, Jon R. Stone

General reviews

Any more broad survey of WD's writings ?

Bulkeley, Kelly (1994). The Wondering Brain: Thinking about Religion With and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience. Routledge. pp. 70ff.

Sanskrit Translations

The Skanda Purana, Bakker, Hans T. et al.,Volume 1 (to be verified)
Listserv posts, Michael Witzel
Ask Yourselves in Your Own Hearts..., Ioan P. Culianu, History of Religions, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Feb., 1983), pp. 284-286 (Review of Rig Veda: An anthology)

Surveys and mythology

Review of The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, Journal of Religion 84.2 (April 2004)
Review of The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth, Church History 68.2 (June 1999)
Review of Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit, Richard Gombrich, Religious Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1978), pp. 273-274
Review of Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit, J. L. Brockington, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 1 (1978), pp. 90-91
James F. DeRoche, Library Journal, 2/15/2009 (Review of The Hindus: an alternative history)
David Arnold. "Beheading Hindus And other alternative aspects of Wendy Doniger's history of a mythology", Times Literary Supplement, July 29, 2009 (Review of The Hindus: an alternative history)
Pankaj Mishra, "Another Incarnation", New York Times, April 24, 2009 (Review of The Hindus: an alternative history)

Greek translations & Misc

Sociopolitical response

List sources that specifically comment upon the sociopolitical response, or ones that written by "non-experts" who are quotable only in this context.

A place at the multicultural table: the development of an American Hinduism, Prema A. Kurien
Dispatches from memory: Genealogies of tradition, Earle H. Waugh, in Historicizing "tradition" in the study of religion, Steven Engler, Gregory Price Grieve
Christian Lee Novetzske, "The Study of Indian Religions in the US Academy", India Review 5.1 (May 2006), 113-114
Martha C. Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), p. 248
Invading The Sacred, Aditi Banerjee, Outlook.
Oh, But You Do Get It Wrong!, Aditi Banerjee, Outlook.
Invading The Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America, Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas and Aditi Banerjee. (Can someone with access list and categorize the relevant articles individually, s,ince their reliability will need to be accessed separately ?)
Amy M. Braverman. "The interpretation of gods". University of Chicago Magazine, 97.2 (December 2004). it's an alumni magazine...
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Hinduism/2003/07/Scholars-Of-Hinduism-Under-Attack.aspx - cited by McCutcheon, also at an .edu site here: [1]

Offhand mentions:

Russell T. McCutcheon. "It's a Lie. There's No Truth in It! It's a Sin!": On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves - Mentions response to Doniger as an example of unfolding bias in "humanistic" religious studies. Would be good for a more general article on Hindu studies in America.

Drafts