Selected publications from UT Faculty in the last few years are listed below. Please consult the faculty pages of specific individuals for complete information on their publications.
2025
Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha. “Translating Tamil God into Sanskrit in Vedāntadeśika’s Dramiḍopaniṣattātparyaratnāvalī.” JAOS 145.1: 43–64.
Cuneo, Daniele. “Dhvani” in Anna Castaing, Nicolas Dejenne et Claudine Le Blanc (eds.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures de l’Inde (DELI), Paris: Classiques Garnier, pp. 273-274.
Freiberger, Oliver. “Qualities of Distinction A New Perspective on the dhutaṅgas in the Pāli Canon.” Journal of the Pail Text Society 36: 61-97.
2024
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uneo, Daniele and Elisa Ganser. Pensare l’ attore. Le fonti sanscrite. Milano: Unicopli.
Cuneo, Daniele. “Back on the Map. Sahadeva’s Place in the Intellectual History of Kashmiri Poetics.” Bulletin d’Etudes Indiennes 36: 229-276.
Davis, Jr. Donald R. “Pratiloma Paranoia: Class Hierarchy, Ethics, and Conservatism in Classical Hindu Law.” Religions 15:7, 820. Special Issue on Religious Ethics and Law, ed. János Jany.
Freiberger, Oliver. “Relevance in Three Dimensions: Teaching Religion with the Comparative Method.” Teaching Theology & Religion 27: 90–94.
Freiberger, Oliver. “What Religion Can Be: Mongolian Classifications, Comparative Perspectives, and a Global View.” Special Issue: “Towards a Global History of Religion.” AЯGOS 3.2: 48–55.
Gutiérrez, Andrea. “Meat on and off the Royal Menu: The Medieval Delight of the Mind & the Erasure of Meat from Indian Recipe Collections.” Global Food History 10.2 (2024): 140-158.
Olivelle, Patrick. “The World Renouncer and Man-In-The-World: Revisiting an Old Paradigm.” Contributions to Indian Sociology, 58: 15–30.
Olivelle, Patrick. “Justice in Ancient India: Dharma as Law and Dharma as Justice.” In Realizing Justice?: Normative Orders and the Realities of Justice in India. Eds. Antje Linkenbach and Aditya Malik. Delhi: Manohar, pp. 63–87.
2023
Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha. “When Your Desire Defines the Path: Subcategories of Self-Surrender in Śrīvaiṣṇava Soteriology.” Religions of South Asia 17.3: 241–257.
Cuneo, Danield and Elisa Ganser. (eds.) “Literary Commentaries and the Intellectual Life of South Asia”, Special Issue of Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques (2022) 76.3.
Cuneo, Danield and Elisa Ganser.”Gracefully Twisting the Neck. Literary Commentaries as a (Meta)Genre of Scholarly Discourse.” Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 76.3: 471-506.
Davis, Jr. Donald R. “Sex with Purpose: Mīmāṃsā Rules and theDharma of Marital Intercourse.” Religions of South Asia 17:1. Special issue ed. Elisa Freschi, 23-43.
Freiberger, Oliver. “Haus versus Hauslosigkeit: Eine buddhistische Bestimmung von Säkularität?” [House vs. Homelessness: A Buddhist Definition of Secularity?]. In: Grenzen der Religion: Säkularität in der Asiatischen Religionsgeschichte. Ed. Max Deeg, Christoph Kleine, Oliver Freiberger, and Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 19–36.
Gutiérrez, Andrea. “Toward a Better Understanding of Medieval Temple Food Practices: The View from Srirangam.” The Journal of Hindu Studies 16:2, 182–205.
Gutiérrez, Andrea. “Elephant Education, Linguistic Articulation, Punishment? Gajaśikṣā as Interspecies Communication in Elephant Care Manuals of Early India,” In Conversations with the Animate ‘Other’: Historical Representations of Human & Non-Human Interactions in India. ed. Aloka Parasher-Sen. Bloomsbury Delhi/UK.
Olivelle, Patrick. “To Kill or Not to Kill: The Hermeneutics of the Ethical Axion ahiṃsā.” Science and Society in the Sanskrit World. Ed. Christopher Fleming, Toke L. Knudsen, Anuj Misra, and Vishal Sharma, pp. 263–275. Leiden: Brill.
Olivelle, Patrick. “How to Change Law in Classical India: Hermeneutics in the Service of the Legal Profession.” Religion of South Asia 17(1): 6–22.
2022
Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha. “Vedāntadeśika’s Systematization of Rāmānuja’s Self-surrender (prapatti): A Study Based on the Nikṣeparakṣā.” International Journal of Hindu Studies 26, 89–112.
Davis, Jr. Donald R. “Seeing through the Law: A Debate on Caste in Medieval Dharmaśāstra.” Contributions to Indian Sociology 56:1, 17-40.
Freiberger, Oliver. Religionsvergleich: Ansätze, Kritik, Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Gutiérrez, Andrea. “The Curious Case of Nala’s Mirror on Cooking: Innovation in Medieval Indian Cookbook Writing.” in Food and Imagination: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2021, 201–9. London: Prospect Books, 2022.
Gutiérrez, Andrea. “Medieval Food as Deity Worship: The Elaboration of Food Offerings in Chola-Era Ritual Practice.” In The Routledge Handbook on Hindu Temples: Materiality, Social History and Practice. eds. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Salila Kulshreshtha, and Uthara Suvrathan, pp. 126-144. Routledge, 2022.
Olivelle, Patrick. 2022. Collected Essays III: Reading Texts and Narrating History. Delhi: Primus Books.
Olivelle, Patrick. “Mining the Past to Construct the Present: Some Methodological Considerations from India.” In Bridging Two World: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China, eds. Amitav Acharya, Daniel A. Bell, Rajeev Bhargava, and Yan Xuetong, pp. 39–58. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Rajpurohit, Dalpat S. “Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput Imperial Paradigm.” Modern Asian Studies 56:3 (2022), 924-958.
2021
Davis, Jr. Donald R. “Conscience is Tradition: Classical Hindu Law and the Ethics of Conservatism.” In Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology and History. eds. Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2021, 37-58.
Rajpurohit, Dalpat. “Bhakti versus rīti? The Sants’ Perspective.” Bulletin of SOAS 84: 1 (2021), 95–113.
Richard, Tyler M. (co-authored with Arthur I. Segel) “The Dance of Dharma: On the Difficulty of Being Good.” Harvard Business School Case 821-058. (Revised March 2021)
Selby, Martha. “Is there a Caṅkam Way of Feeling? Body, Landscape, Voice, and Affect in Old Tamil Poetry.” In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy, Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar, editors. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2021
Talbot, Cynthia. “Anger and Atonement in Mughal India: An Alternative Account of Akbar’s 1578 Hunt.” Modern Asian Studies, 48 pp.