21cd Southwestern University: Profile

Religion

Elaine Craddock

Professor of Religion

Areas of expertise
Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

Education

MA, PhD, UC Berkeley 1994

Courses: Spring 2013

Paideia Seminar 2B
Introduction to Hinduism
Gender and Islam
Islamic Mysticism
Seminar:North Amer Buddhism

Publications

Siva's Demon Devotee: Karaikkal Ammaiyar; SUNY Press, 2010.

"Karaikkal Ammaiyar: Bridging the Cankam and Saiva Worlds." In Affinities and Oppositions:

Relationship between Tamil and Sanskrit, edited by Kannan M and Jennifer Clare. French Institute, Pondicherry and the Tamil Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

"The Anatomy of Devotion: The Life and Poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar."  In Beyond the Circle: Women's Rituals, Women's Lives in Hindu Traditions, edited by Tracy Pintchman. Oxford University Press, 2007.

"Reconstructing the Split Goddess as Shakti in a Tamil Village." In Seeking Mahadevi:Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, edited by Tracy Pintchman. New York: SUNY, 2001.


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