California State University, Fullerton, United States
Mugdha Yeolekar is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is also a steering committee member of the Interreligious friendship seminar at the American Academy of Religion. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Arizona State University, Master’s degrees in Political Science from both the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the University of Pune, India, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Sanskrit and Indology from Tilak Maharashtra University, Pune. Mugdha Yeolekar’s research interests include agency, gender, materiality, and technology in Indian religions. She has published articles on sex and gender, devotional reading practices, teaching about diversity, and ecologies in Hinduism. Her dissertation, entitled, “Gurucaritra Parayan: social praxis of religious reading,” focuses on religious reading and meaning-making in Hinduism. Her recent publications include, “Embedding diversity conversations in Religious Studies Courses: Reflections on teaching Religions of the World” (The International Journal of Diversity in Education, vol 21, 1:2020); “Texts and trees: ritual engagements with Audumbar tree in the Dattatreya Sampradaya, (Sustainable Societies: Interreligious Interdisciplinary responses, Springer Publication, 2023).
Knowledge Production and Representation in Religion
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Materiality and religion: practices of knowledge production in religious reading of the Gurucaritra
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)