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John Stratton Hawley
Professor of Religion
Jack Hawley joined Barnard's faculty in 1986. His research is focused on the religious life of north India and on the literature that it has spawned in the course of the last 500 years. He is the author or editor of some fifteen books. Most concern Hinduism and the religions of India, but others are broadly comparative. His current major project—a book called The Bhakti Movement: Excavations in a Master Narrative—is devoted to deconstructing and reconstructing one of the principal ways in which Indians have told their religious history. Its focus: bhakti, the religion of song, of radical engagement, and of the heart.
He has served as director of Columbia University's Southern Asian Institute and
has received multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the Smithsonian, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow.
Recent Publications
The Memory of Love: Surdas Sings to Krishna (Oxford, 2009)
Editor, The Bhakti Movement—Says Who?, a dedicated issue of The International Journal of Hindu Studies (11:1, 2007).
Co-editor (with Vasudha Narayanan), The Life of Hinduism (California, 2006).
Co-editor (with Kimberley Patton), Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (Princeton, 2005)
Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours (Oxford, 2005)
Songs of the Saints of India (with Mark Juergensmeyer), second revised edition (Oxford, 2004)212.854.5292
jsh3@columbia.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.Div., Union Theological Seminary
A.B., Amherst CollegeRELATED LINKS:
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Hinduism in north India
Religious literature in Brajbhasa/Hindi
Religion in New York