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Cultural and Religious History of South Asia

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Welcome to Dr. Ofer Peres

Dr. Ofer Peres
Dr. Ofer Peres

The Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia is pleased to welcome Dr. Ofer Peres as PostDoc researcher in the SITes project. Before he had been part of the South Asia Institute as Minerva fellow since Oct 2021.

Dr. Ofer Peres is a scholar of South Asian religions and literature. His main fields of interest are Vedic myth and ritual, purāṇic Hinduism, south Indian bhakti traditions, and early modern Tamil Śaivism. In his research, he examines the functions of textual adaptations and translations, and their role in cultural and religious transitions. As a Minerva Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Dr. Peres worked on his research project: “Contesting Realities: Narrative Adaptation as Ideological Discourse in Medieval India.” In addition, he pursued another project, entitled “The Rise of the Dark Planet: The Early-Modern Origins of the Cult of Saturn in South Asia.”

As member of the SITes project he researches the The Six Abodes of Murukaṉ (Āṟupaṭaivīṭu).

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