Joel Bordeaux
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. J.E. Bordeaux
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2542
- j.e.bordeaux@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Joel Bordeaux is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies.
More information about Joel Bordeaux
Fields of interest
- South Asian and Himalayan religions
- kingship and court culture
- esotericism and heterodoxy
- Sanskrit and Bengali literature
- orientalism and new religious movements
Grants and awards
Gonda Fellowship (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) 2020-2021
American Institute of Bangladesh Studies Senior Fellowship, 2019
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- LUCSoR
- Bordeaux J.E. (2022), Back When We Were Brahmins: Historical and Caste Critique Among Bengali Householder Nāths. In: Bevilacqua D & Stuparich E. (Eds.) The Power of the Nath Yogis: Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Bordeaux J.E. (2021), Ritual Theory at the Margins of a Minority Tradition. The Religious Studies Project: The Religious Studies Project Association [blog entry].
- Bordeaux J.E. (2020), West Bengal (Website). Vancouver : University of British Columbia, (Database of Religious History). [website].
- Bordeaux J.E. (2019), Blood in the Mainstream: Kālī Pūjā and Tantric Orthodoxy in Early Modern Bengal, International Journal of Hindu Studies 23(2): 151-164.
- Bordeaux J.E. (2017), The Dark Knight of the Soul: Death as Initiatory Ordeal in Grant Morrison’s Batman R.I.P. In: Hackett P. (Ed.) The Assimilation of Yogic Religions Through Pop Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books.
- Bordeaux J.E. (2013), Review of The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition by Tony K. Stewart Review of: Stewart T.K. The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition, 52(4): 409-411.
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