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Sacred Sovereignty: Kingship, Heritage, and Political Imagination in India
Author:
Caleb Simmons
Series:
Sanctum Studies in Indian Intellectual, Cultural, and Historical Traditions
Binding:
Paperback
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Caleb Simmons
Caleb Simmons is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona and Executive Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies. He received his PhD in Religion from the University of Florida. His research focuses on the religions of South Asia, particularly Hinduism, with special interests in kingship, political theology, goddess traditions, sacred geography, and the intersections of religion, history, and state formation. He is the author of
Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India
(2020) and
Singing the Goddess into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad
(2022); and co-editor of
Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia
.
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