About Edwin F. Bryant, PHD

COURSES TAUGHT

Harvard University: Introduction to Hinduism; Krishna; Theism in Indic Thought; The Bhagavad Gita and its Commentaries; The Yoga of Devotion: Reading of a Hindu Theological Text; Philosophies of India; Reading Hindu Texts; Hindu Gurus in the West; The Rise of the Goddess Tradition; God as Lover, Child & Friend; Sanskrit; Hindi.

Rutgers University: Religions of the Eastern World (840:211); Introduction to Hinduism (840:322); Krishna (840:357); Hindu Philosophy (840:368); Hindu Gurus in the West (840:345); Sanskrit (independent study, first and second year); The Bhagavad Gita and its Commentaries (840:358, Fall 2003).

Courses in preparation: Vedanta and its Commentaries; The Rise of Hindu Nationalism; Siva & Sakti; The Encounter of Europe and India in the Nineteenth Century; the Yoga Sutras.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Invasion Debate. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God. Translation from Sanskrit with notes and introduction. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.

The Hare Krishna Movement: The Post-Charismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant. Co-edited with Maria Ekstrand. New York: Columbia University Press, in press (2004).

The Aryan Invasion: Evidence, Politics, History. Co-edited with Laurie Patton. Richmond, UK: Routledge Curzon Press, in press (2004).

The Quest for the Historical Krishna. New York: Oxford University Press, in progress.

Primary Sources in the Krishna Tradition. Edited volume. New York: Oxford University Press, in progress (2004).

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Notes from the Traditional Commentators. In progress.

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