Department of Religions, Department of Philosophy & School of History, Religions and Philosophies

Dr Sian Hawthorne

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Roles: Department of Religions Department of Philosophy Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics
Department: Department of Religions, Department of Philosophy & School of History, Religions and Philosophies
Qualifications: PhD (London)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 337
Email address: sh79@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: 020 7898 4215

Biography

SOAS Radio · Radio Research Forum: Out Of Time w/ Rahul Rao

Research interests

Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.

PhD Supervision

Name	Title
Rumi Dahar
Stewart Gilchrist	Hindutva : Saffron Yoga and the expiration of ahiṃsā
Dr Monika Hirmer	Cosmic households and primordial creativity: Worlding the world with (and as) Devī in a contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā tradition
Amelia Louise Wood	Abuses of Power in Modern Transnational Yoga

Publications

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Email: sh79@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7898 4215

School of History, Religions and Philosophies

The School specialises in teaching and researching the history, religion, and philosophy of the Global South in a critical, decolonial, and interdisciplinary manner.

School of History, Religions and Philosophies

Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage

Exploring the relationships between Jaina mendicant lineages and their supporters.

Department of History & School of History, Religions and Philosophies

MA History

MA History at SOAS University of London

Dr Sian Hawthorne

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Biography

Research interests

PhD Supervision

Publications

Articles Open

Calls, Invitations, Summons: ‘Gender’ in the aftermath of Politics of Piety

At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke

Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift"

“Reparative Reading” as Queer Pedagogy

Christianity's Forgetting

Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality

Introduction. Catachresis: Religion, Gender, and Postcoloniality

An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'

Review of: 'Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire' by Avril A. Powell

Is There a (M)other in the Text?: Post-theistic Sikh Ontology and the Question of the Phallus

Review of: 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal' by Niklaus Largier

Edited book or Journal Volume Open

Gender: God

Book Chapters Open

Homonationalism and the Challenge of Queer Theology

Origin Myths and Temporal Orders

Genealogical Fictions: Origins Myths and Temporal Orders

Entangled Subjects: Feminism, Religion, and the Obligation to Alterity

Religion and Gender. 'Contentious Traditions': The Study of Religions and the Gender-Theoretical Critique

Western Feminism

Religion and Gender

Feminism: Feminism, Gender Studies, and Religion

Gynocentrism

Gender and Religion: History of Study

Rethinking Subjectivity in the Gender-Oriented Study of Religions: Kristeva and the 'Subject-in-Process'

Thesis Open

Cosmic Households and Primordial Creativity: Worlding the World with (and as) Devī in a Contemporary Indian Śrīvidyā Tradition

The Upside-down Kingdom of God : A Disability Studies Perspective on Disabled People’s Experiences in Churches and Theologies of Disability

Narrating Christianity, living 'fulfilled lives': the young women's Christian association in Kenya, 1912-2012

Owning the future : demonology and the architecture of sovereignty in a time of terror

Female voices in the Vārkarī sampradāya : gender constructions in a bhakti tradition

Damaged bodies: women’s agency in trecento Florentine soteriological discourses

'Why vote for a fake kinnar when you can vote for a real one?’: representation and political identity among kinnars in Madhya Pradesh, India

Exile from exile: the representation of cultural memory in literary texts by exiled Iranian Jewish women

Lesbian Buddhism?

Origins, Genealogies, and the Politics of Mythmaking: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Myth

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Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage

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