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| John S. Hawley
219A Milbank
office hours TR 3-5pm
Phone
university: (212) 854-5292
Email
jsh3@columbia.edu |
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John S. Hawley
Professor
Barnard College |
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Biography
John Stratton Hawley (a.k.a. Jack) is a specialist in the devotional traditions of North India. He was educated at Amherst College (European History, B.A. 1963), Union Theological Seminary (Hebrew Bible, M.Div. 1966), and Harvard University (Comparative Religion, Hinduism, 1977). He has taught at Barnard and Columbia since 1986.
Hawley has written or edited more than a dozen books. Several of them (At Play with Krishna; Krishna, the Butter Thief; Sur Das: Poet, Singer, Saint; The Divine Consort) focus especially on the worship of Krishna and his consort Radha. Others (Songs of the Saints of India and the edited volumes Sati: The Blessing and the Curse and Devi: Goddesses of India) take a broader view, exploring themes in Hindu poetry and hagiography and in modern Hindu religion. Several edited volumes are comparative: one on religious exemplitude (Saints and Virtues), one on Fundamentalism and Gender, and a new one (with Kimberley Patton) on Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination.
Hawley’s most recently published book on Hindu India is Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours. Two others are forthcoming: The Life of Hinduism (with Vasudha Narayanan) and his largest and longest-standing work, Sur’s Ocean. Sur’s Ocean will be followed by a much shorter paperback version tentatively called Surdas: Poems for Krishna.
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