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Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of The Hindus: An Alternative History, On Hinduism, and, most recently, the volume on Hinduism in The Norton Anthology of World Religions.

An Open Letter in Support of Jason Rezaian

December 3, 2015 issue

War & The ‘Gita’

March 19, 2015 issue

Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, at a meeting of the national council of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Delhi, January 2014. He was elected prime minister of India in May 2014.

War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita

The text has changed its meaning again and again over the centuries

The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography

by Richard H. Davis

December 4, 2014 issue

Letter

R. Vanita

War & The ‘Gita’

March 19, 2015 issue

‘The Elephant and the Bookseller’; eighteenth-century engraving from the exhibition ‘William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain,’ organized by the Bard Graduate Center and on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until July 13, 2014. The catalog is edited by Susan Weber and published by Yale University Press.

Wendy Doniger and the Hindus

July 10, 2014 issue

Dina Nath Batra, the retired headmaster whose lawsuit against Penguin India led the company to agree to destroy copies of Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History, in his office beneath portraits of right-wing Hindu nationalists K.B. Hedgewar and M.S. Golwakar, Delhi, February 2014

Censored in India

The threat to intellectual freedom from efforts to suppress the study of religion

May 8, 2014 issue

Letter

Murali Balaji

Wendy Doniger and the Hindus

July 10, 2014 issue

Unspeakable Sins

Idolatry

by Moshe Halbertal and Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum

April 21, 1994 issue

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