Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte Südasiens
Cultural and Religious History of South Asia
SÜDASIEN-INSTITUT
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SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE
CENTRE FOR ASIAN AND TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES
▍ Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken
Voßstrasse 2
Building 4130, Room 130.02.15
69115 Heidelberg • Germany
+49(0)6221 54 15261
Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung | appointment by arrangement
Ute Hüsken ist seit 2017 Abteilungsleiterin und Lehrstuhlinhaberin der Abteilung Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte Südasiens. Sie studierte Indologie, Tibetologie, Birmanistik, Soziologie und Ethnologie an der Universität Göttingen, wo Sie 1996 mit dem Thema "Die Regeln für die buddhistische Nonnengemeinde im Vinaya-Piṭaka der Therāvadin" promoviert wurde. 2003 habilitierte Sie sich an der Universität Heidelberg mit der Arbeit "Übergangsrituale der südindischen viṣṇuitischen Vaikhānasa Tradition."
Nach Tätigkeiten als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Hochschulassistentin an der Universität Göttingen, war sie von 2003 bis 2008 erst als Projektmitarbeiterin, dann als als Projektleiterin am Sonderforschungsbereich 619 „Ritualdynamik“ der Universität Heidelberg beteiligt. 2007 folgte sie einem Ruf als Professorin an das Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages der Universität Oslo. 2017 folgte sie dann einem Ruf zurück an die Universität Heidelberg.
Hüskens Forschungsgebiete umfassen Buddhismus, Hinduismus, Ritualstudien, das Studium von Festivitäten sowie gender-Studien. Dabei kombiniert sie Methoden der Textanalyse (Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil) mit Methoden der Ethnologie. Sie gibt zusammen mit Ronald L. Grimes und Barry Stephenson die Publikationsreihe The Oxford Ritual Studies Series (OUP) heraus.
Since 2017 Ute Hüsken is Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia. She joined Heidelberg University coming from Oslo University, where she had been professor of South Asia Studies (Sanskrit) since 2007. Before that, she had been member and project leader in the collaborative research project “dynamics of ritual” at Heidelberg University (SFB 619).
Hüsken’s main research fields are Buddhist studies, Hindu studies, Ritual and Festival studies and Gender studies. In most of her most recent work she combines methods of textual research (Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil) and anthropology.
Her major publications include Die Vorschriften für die Buddhistische Nonnengemeinde im Vinaya-Piṭaka der Theravādin (Reimer, 1997), When Rituals Go Wrong. Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual (Brill, 2007), Viṣṇu’s Children. Prenatal life-cycle rituals in South India (Harrassowitz, 2009), and numerous edited volumes mainly in the fields of gender and ritual studies. Together with Ronald Grimes and Barry Stephenson she edits The Oxford Ritual Studies Series (OUP).
▍ Forschung | Research
Hindu Temple Legends in South India
(long-term project at the
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
)
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South Indian Temples: Nodal Points in Webs of Connections (SITes)
Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz (Cracow) | Ute Hüsken
━ Gender, Religion, and Agency
━ Manuscriptology and Digital Humanities
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Temple Networks in Early Modern South India: Narratives, Rituals, and Material Culture
(Abgeschlossen | concluded)
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Navarātri, Navarātra and Durgāpūjā in South Asia and beyond
(Abgeschlossen | concluded)
▍ Publikationen | Publications
(Auswahl | selected list)
‣ Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Hinduism and Buddhism, ed. by Ute Hüsken (Religion, Culture, and History Series of the American Academy of Religion). New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
‣ Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives, ed. by Malini Ambach, Jonas Buchholz, and Ute Hüsken. Heidelberg: HASP, 2022.
‣ Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls and Darbars, ed. by Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan & Astrid Zotter, New York: SUNY, 2021.
‣ “Ritual remedies: overcoming murder in a South Indian temple.” In Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence: Rethinking Religious Offence and its Containment, ed. by Vera Lazzaretti and Kathinka Frøystad. London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 13-24.
‣ “Tradition, Innovation, and Resistance? Training Girls in Sanskrit and Vedic Rituals.” In Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Hinduism and Buddhism, ed. by Ute Hüsken (Religion, Culture, and History Series of the American Academy of Religion). New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 192-214.
‣ “South Asian Festival Culture.” In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions, ed. by Knut A. Jacobsen, Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, pp. 384-398.
▍ Lehre | Teaching
A few courses in this or previous semesters:
‣ Manuscriptology and Digital Humanities 写本研究とデジタル人文学 (online lecture series, together with Prof. Shobha Dash, Otani University, Winter term 2022/23)
‣ Rama Stories: Ramayana tellings, re-tellings, twists and turns from the last two millennia to the present (lecture series, together with Prof. Hans Harder, Winter term 2022/23)
‣ Excursion to the exhibition “Being Jain” (Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Winter term 2022/23)
‣ Temple legends - Māhātmyas (Sanskrit reading course, Winter term 2021/22)
‣ Hindu-Muslim Encounters (with Prof. Dr. William Sax, Lecture series, Winter term 2020/21)
‣ Female Religious Leaders and Dynamics of Female Agency in Religious Settings in South Asia - From workshop to publication (Seminar, Winter term 2020/21)
‣ South Indian Temple Cultures (Seminar, Summer term 2019)
KONTAKT | CONTACT
Sekretariat | Office
Lizeth Ortiz-Carreño
Mon. & Wed. 09:00 - 17 Hrs.
Fri. 13-17 Hrs. (Home Office)
Voßstrasse 2 • Building 4130 • Room 130.02.14
+49 (0) 6221 54 15260
klassische-indologie@uni-heidelberg.de