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Joel Bordeaux

Guest researcher

Name
Dr. J.E. Bordeaux
Telephone
+31 71 527 2727
E-mail
j.e.bordeaux@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Joel Bordeaux is a guest researcher 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

Guest researcher

  • 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. book chapter
  • Bordeaux J.E., Ritual Theory at the Margins of a Minority Tradition. The Religious Studies Project: The Religious Studies Project Association. [blog entry].
  • Bordeaux J.E., West Bengal. Vancouver : University of British Columbia (Database of Religious History). [web article].
  • 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. article in journal
  • 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. book chapter
  • 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. book review

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