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Alf Hiltebeitel

Author of Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses

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Alf Hiltebeitel is Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences in the Department of Religion at The George Washington University, USA.

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Works by Alf Hiltebeitel

Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses (2000) — Editor — 25 copies
The ritual of battle : Krishna in the Mahābhārata (1976) 18 copies
The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1: Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (1988) 16 copies
Hair : Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures (1998) — Editor — 13 copies
Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism (1989) 11 copies
Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King (2001) 9 copies
Dharma (2010) 9 copies
Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (Religion & Postmodernism S) (1999) 8 copies
Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative (2011) 7 copies
Reading the fifth Veda studies on the Mahabharata : essays. Volume 1 (2011) 6 copies
Freud's India: Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose (2018) 6 copies
Freud's Mahabharata (2018) 6 copies
The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 2: On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (1991) 5 copies
Non-violence in the Mahabharata : Siva's Summa on Rishidharma and the gleaners of Kurukshetra (2016) 5 copies
When the Goddess Was a Woman: Mahabharata Ethnographies - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel (Numen Book Series - Studies in the History of Religion - Texts and Sources in the History of… (2011) 3 copies
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A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (1983) — Translator, some editions — 586 copies, 8 reviews
The Destiny of a King (1973) — Translator, some editions — 46 copies, 1 review
Homage to Georges Dumézil (1982) — Contributor — 2 copies

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