Dr Theodore Proferes
BA(New York); MA, PhD(Harvard)
Overview
Department of the Study of Religions
Senior Lecturer in Ancient Indian Religions
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Centre of Jaina Studies
Member, Centre of Jaina Studies
- Name:
- Dr Theodore Proferes
- Email address:
- tp17@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4637
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 378
- Office Hours:
- Term 2 - Thursdays 3-5pm
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Dissertation in Indian Religions
- Dissertation in the traditions of Yoga and Meditation
- Religious Philosophies of Ancient and Medieval India
- Religious and Philosophical Ideas of Ancient and Medieval India
- Text and Context in Classical Hinduism
- Textual Sources of Classical Hinduism
- The Origins and Development of Yoga in Ancient India
- Vedic Interpretations
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Yoga and Meditation: Perspectives, Context and Methodologies
PhD Students supervised
- Graham Burns, Philosophical study on ways in which Vedic Upanishads present reality.
- James Kimball, The soteriological role of the ṛṣi Kapila in the Yuktidīpikā: the production and transmission of liberating knowledge in classical Sāṃkhya.
- Malgorzata Kruszewska,
- Sayam Patthranuprawat, Literary analysis of the narrative methods of stories in the Maharbatha.
Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- South Asia
Country Expertise
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Proferes, Theodore (2007) Vedic Ideals of Sovereignty and the Poetics of Power. American Oriental Society.
Book Chapters
Proferes, Theodore N. (2012) 'The Vedic Period.' In: Malinar, Angelika and Jacobsen, Knut, (eds.), Encyclopedia of Hinduism, volume IV. Leiden: Brill.
Proferes, Theodore N. (2011) 'Vedas and Brahmanas.' In: Malinar, Angelika and Jacobsen, Knut, (eds.), Encyclopedia of Hinduism, volume II. Leiden: Brill.
Proferes, Theodore (2000) 'The Marginalized Butcher: Observations on the Ritual Poetics of the Vanaspati Stanzas.' In: T, eds, (ed.), SOAS Working Papers in the Study of Religions 2000. SOAS, pp. 41-67.
Articles
Proferes, Theodore (2003) 'Kuru kings, Tura Kavaseya and the -tvaya Gerund.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66 (2). pp. 210-219.
Proferes, Theodore (2003) 'Poetics and Pragmatics in the Vedic Liturgy for the Installation of the Sacrificial Post.' Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123 (2). pp. 317-50.
Proferes, Theodore (2003) 'Remarks on the Transition from Rgvedic Composition to Srauta Compilation.' Indo-Iranian Journal, 46 (1). pp. 1-21.
Book Reviews
Proferes, Theodore (2003) 'Review of "Aryans Revisited" by Ramendra Nath Nandi.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66 (2). pp. 271-273.
