Geslani, Marko
Associate Professor
Marko Geslani (PhD, Yale 2011) is a historian of religion specializing in ritual studies and medieval Hinduism. His first book, Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism (OUP 2018), forms a historiographic critique of Hinduism through a history of omen-appeasement (śānti) rituals, from late Vedic ritual manuals to medieval Hindu purāṇas.
Biographical Profile
- College
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Department
- Religious Studies
- Tenure Status
- Tenured
Interest Background
- Interest Keywords
- Hinduism and Buddhism, method and theory, Orientalism, critical history of religious studies
- Personal Focus Areas
- role astrological tradition (jyotiḥśāstra) - problems of personhood & state formation early Hinduism, recent history of Hindu studies in North American Academy from perspective of Asian American studies, Orientalism
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