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Yr Athro James Hegarty
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Athro Crefyddau De Asia
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
I am fascinated by the history of religions in South Asia. I have written on Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and Christian traditions in the region. In particular, I am interested in how religious texts, and especially religious stories, are used by South Asians to communicate and negotiate their understanding of themselves and the world around them. This includes not just what we ordinarily associate with religion, such as ideas of god or gods, or the nature of the good life, but also other forms of knowledge, such as the way in which the past is understood, or political life, or language itself.
More generally, I am interested in the role of story in the transmission and adaptation of knowledge in societies worldwide. The stories we tell and, in particular, the stories we choose to tell again and again over thousands of years, are a facinating resource for the exploration of what it means, and has meant, to be human.
I specialise in the historical contextualisation and close reading of Sanskrit texts circulating in early South Asia, such as the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, but work also with medieval and modern vernacular South Asian materials in various media.
My major, funded, research projects have been 'The History of Genealogy, the Genealogy of History: family and the construction of the significant past in early South Asia' and 'The Story of Story in South Asia: character and genre across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain tradition'.
I am a member of Cardiff University's Centre for the History of Religion in Asia
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Hegarty, J. M. 2024. Lineages, emerging exemplars, and movements. In: Whitaker, J. ed. A Cultural History of Hinduism in Antiquity., Vol. 1. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 147-167.
2023
- Hegarty, J. M. 2023. The Sanskrit of Solomon Caesar Malan: An Anglican savant reads the Mahābhārata. In: Pfister, L. F. ed. Polyglot from the Far Side of the Moon: The Life and Works of Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894). Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 207-228.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2023. The predicament of the Sant-Sipahi (Saint-Soldier): Sanctioned violence and martyrdom in the Sikh tradition. In: Power, M. and Paynter, H. eds. Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-235., (10.1007/978-3-031-17804-7_11)
- Hegarty, J. 2023. Some moral tasting notes on the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata. In: Balkaran, R. and Taylor, M. eds. Visions and Revisions of Ancient Indian Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. Australian National University Press, pp. 197-226.
2019
- Hegarty, J. and Brahmasetudas, S. 2019. The teacher in the text: exploring the intertextuality of the Vacanāmṛta. Journal of the BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute 2(1), pp. 25-51.
- Hegarty, J. 2019. Models of royal piety in the Mahābhārata: the case of Vidura, Sanatsujāta and Vidurā. In: Black, B. and Chakravarthi, R. eds. In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation. London, England: Taylor and Francis, (10.4324/9781351011136-13)
2018
- Hegarty, J. M. 2018. Across the Indian Ocean: Reconsidering Christianity in South Asia to the Ninth Century. In: Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. J. eds. A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley, pp. 207-231., (10.1002/9781118968130.ch10)
- Hegarty, J. 2018. The Dhammapada, the Mahābhārata and the Mānava Dharmaśāstra: a study in early South Asian intertextuality. Presented at: 15th World Sanskrit Conference, 5-10 January 2012 Presented at Brodbeck, S., Bowles, A. and Hiltebeitel, A. eds.The Churning of the Epics and Puranas: Proceedings of the Epics and Puranas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and D.K. Printworld pp. 209-239.
- Hegarty, J. 2018. 史诗化叙事：南亚宗教文献中的天堂和地狱 Chinese translation of 'epics' of heaven and hell in Early South Asia. 民间文化论坛 - Folk Culture Forum(4), pp. 88-92. (10.16814/j.cnki.1008-7214.2018.04.012)
2017
- Hegarty, J. 2017. Hagiography, religious identity and historical imagination in Eighteenth Century Punjab: exploring Sikh narratives of the life of Guru Nānak. In: Gray, M. ed. Rewriting Holiness: Reconfiguring Vitae, Re-signifying Cults. King's College London Medieval Studies Boydell and Brewer
- Hegarty, J. M. and Brodbeck, S. 2017. An appreciation of, and tribute to, Will Johnson on the occasion of his retirement. Asian Literature and Translation 4(1), pp. 1-32. (10.18573/j.2017.10128)
- Hegarty, J. 2017. The story of story in early South Asia: character and genre across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain narrative traditions. [Online]. Wordpress: Wordpress. Available at: https://storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com/
2014
- Hegarty, J. 2014. Borders and boundaries: proceedings of the first annual SHARE postgraduate symposium; an introduction. SHARE: Studies in History, Archaeology, Religion and Conservation 1(1), pp. 1-3. (10.18573/share.1)
- Hegarty, J. 2014. Going nowhere: power and polemic in Brahminical pilgrimage literature. In: Cuppers, C. and Deeg, M. eds. Searching for the Dharma, Finding Salvation - Buddhist Pilgrimage in Time and Space: proceedings of the workshop "Buddhist Pilgrimage in History and Present Times" at the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI), Lumbini, 11-13 January 2010., Vol. 5. LIRI seminar proceedings series Lumbini International Research Institute
2013
- Hegarty, J. 2013. The Plurality of the Sanskrit Mahabharata and of the Mahabharata Story. In: Contesting Symbols and Stereotypes. Aakar Books, pp. 146-189.
2012
- Hegarty, J. M. 2012. Religion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia: Past and place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Routledge Hindu Studies Series. London: Taylor and Francis.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2012. Religon, narrative and public imagination in South Asia: past and place in the Sanskrit Mahahbharata. London: Routledge.
- Brodbeck, S. P. and Hegarty, J. M. 2012. Genealogy and history in South Asia (Religions of South Asia, special issue): introduction. Religions of South Asia 5(1-2), pp. 5-28. (10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.5)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2012. What need has he of the waters of Puskara? The narrative construction of tirtha in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. In: Brockington, J. ed. Battles, Bards and Brahmins. Motilal Barnarsidass, pp. 129-156.
2011
- Hegarty, J. M. 2011. Towards a socio-cognitive orientation to religious text: a case study in Indian epic literature. In: Jensen, J. S. and Geertz, A. W. eds. Religious Narrative, Cognition and Clture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 121-131.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2011. Etymology, genealogy and history in Early South Asia. Religions of South Asia 5(1/2), pp. 103-127.
- Hegarty, J. 2011. Kirthan and Katha in the asa amdesa (song and story in the land of hope and fear): Narratives of the life of Guru Nanak as canonical commentary in the Sikh panth. In: Deeg, M. and Freiberger, O. eds. Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte. Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 131-160.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2011. Hagiography and the religious imaginary in eighteenth-century Punjab. In: Murphy, A. ed. Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia. Routledge, pp. 133-150.
2010
- Hegarty, J. M. 2010. The pedagogic past: historical and geographical imagination in Eighteenth Century Panjab. In: Deeg, M. and Freiberger, O. eds. Geschicten und Geschichte: Historiographie und Hagiographie in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, pp. 517-548.
2009
- Hegarty, J. M. 2009. Re-thinking the guru: Towards a typology of forms of religious domination in pre-Colonial Pañjāb. Religions of South Asia 3(2), pp. 183-202. (10.1558/rosa.v3i2.183)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2009. On platial imagination in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. International Journal of Hindu Studies 13(2), pp. 163-187. (10.1007/s11407-009-9074-3)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2009. Re-thinking the guru: towards a typology of forms of religious domination in pre-Colonial Punjab. Religions of South Asia 3(2), pp. 179-199.
2007
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Encompassing the sacrifice: On the narrative construction of the significant past in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 8, pp. 77-118.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Guru and Shabad: The Literary Construction of Religious Authority in Narratives of the Life of Guru Nanak. Discussion Paper. Cardiff University: Cardiff Humanities Research Institute. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chri/researchpapers/humanities/papers1-10/Paper1.html
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Toward an old understanding of philology: exploring the literary construction of place as religious and social commentary in Asia. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 8(1), article number: 3753.
- Hegarty, J. M. ed. 2007. The literary construction of place as a form of religious and social commentary: Special Issue of "Acta Orientalia Vilnensia" (2007) 8:1. Vilnius: Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Religion, epic and cultural memory. The construction of the significant past in Sanskrit and Hindi Mahabharatas. Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft 15(2), pp. 179-199. (10.1515/zfr.2007.15.2.179)
2006
- Hegarty, J. M. 2006. Extracting the Katha-amrta (Elixir of Story): Creation, Ritual, Sovereignty and Textual Structure in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Journal of Vaishnava Studies 14(2), pp. 39-60.
2001
- Hegarty, J. M. 2001. An Apprenticeship in Attentiveness: Narrative Patterning in the Dyutaparvan and the Nalopakhyana of the Mahabharata. Rocznik Orientalistyczny 54(1), pp. 33-62.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Hegarty, J. M. 2024. Lineages, emerging exemplars, and movements. In: Whitaker, J. ed. A Cultural History of Hinduism in Antiquity., Vol. 1. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 147-167.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2023. The Sanskrit of Solomon Caesar Malan: An Anglican savant reads the Mahābhārata. In: Pfister, L. F. ed. Polyglot from the Far Side of the Moon: The Life and Works of Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894). Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 207-228.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2023. The predicament of the Sant-Sipahi (Saint-Soldier): Sanctioned violence and martyrdom in the Sikh tradition. In: Power, M. and Paynter, H. eds. Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-235., (10.1007/978-3-031-17804-7_11)
- Hegarty, J. 2023. Some moral tasting notes on the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata. In: Balkaran, R. and Taylor, M. eds. Visions and Revisions of Ancient Indian Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. Australian National University Press, pp. 197-226.
- Hegarty, J. 2019. Models of royal piety in the Mahābhārata: the case of Vidura, Sanatsujāta and Vidurā. In: Black, B. and Chakravarthi, R. eds. In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation. London, England: Taylor and Francis, (10.4324/9781351011136-13)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2018. Across the Indian Ocean: Reconsidering Christianity in South Asia to the Ninth Century. In: Lossl, J. and Baker-Brian, N. J. eds. A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley, pp. 207-231., (10.1002/9781118968130.ch10)
- Hegarty, J. 2017. Hagiography, religious identity and historical imagination in Eighteenth Century Punjab: exploring Sikh narratives of the life of Guru Nānak. In: Gray, M. ed. Rewriting Holiness: Reconfiguring Vitae, Re-signifying Cults. King's College London Medieval Studies Boydell and Brewer
- Hegarty, J. 2014. Going nowhere: power and polemic in Brahminical pilgrimage literature. In: Cuppers, C. and Deeg, M. eds. Searching for the Dharma, Finding Salvation - Buddhist Pilgrimage in Time and Space: proceedings of the workshop "Buddhist Pilgrimage in History and Present Times" at the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI), Lumbini, 11-13 January 2010., Vol. 5. LIRI seminar proceedings series Lumbini International Research Institute
- Hegarty, J. 2013. The Plurality of the Sanskrit Mahabharata and of the Mahabharata Story. In: Contesting Symbols and Stereotypes. Aakar Books, pp. 146-189.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2012. What need has he of the waters of Puskara? The narrative construction of tirtha in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. In: Brockington, J. ed. Battles, Bards and Brahmins. Motilal Barnarsidass, pp. 129-156.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2011. Towards a socio-cognitive orientation to religious text: a case study in Indian epic literature. In: Jensen, J. S. and Geertz, A. W. eds. Religious Narrative, Cognition and Clture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 121-131.
- Hegarty, J. 2011. Kirthan and Katha in the asa amdesa (song and story in the land of hope and fear): Narratives of the life of Guru Nanak as canonical commentary in the Sikh panth. In: Deeg, M. and Freiberger, O. eds. Kanonisierung und Kanonbildung in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte. Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 131-160.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2011. Hagiography and the religious imaginary in eighteenth-century Punjab. In: Murphy, A. ed. Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia. Routledge, pp. 133-150.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2010. The pedagogic past: historical and geographical imagination in Eighteenth Century Panjab. In: Deeg, M. and Freiberger, O. eds. Geschicten und Geschichte: Historiographie und Hagiographie in der asiatischen Religionsgeschichte. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, pp. 517-548.
Cynadleddau
- Hegarty, J. 2018. The Dhammapada, the Mahābhārata and the Mānava Dharmaśāstra: a study in early South Asian intertextuality. Presented at: 15th World Sanskrit Conference, 5-10 January 2012 Presented at Brodbeck, S., Bowles, A. and Hiltebeitel, A. eds.The Churning of the Epics and Puranas: Proceedings of the Epics and Puranas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and D.K. Printworld pp. 209-239.
Erthyglau
- Hegarty, J. and Brahmasetudas, S. 2019. The teacher in the text: exploring the intertextuality of the Vacanāmṛta. Journal of the BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute 2(1), pp. 25-51.
- Hegarty, J. 2018. 史诗化叙事：南亚宗教文献中的天堂和地狱 Chinese translation of 'epics' of heaven and hell in Early South Asia. 民间文化论坛 - Folk Culture Forum(4), pp. 88-92. (10.16814/j.cnki.1008-7214.2018.04.012)
- Hegarty, J. M. and Brodbeck, S. 2017. An appreciation of, and tribute to, Will Johnson on the occasion of his retirement. Asian Literature and Translation 4(1), pp. 1-32. (10.18573/j.2017.10128)
- Hegarty, J. 2014. Borders and boundaries: proceedings of the first annual SHARE postgraduate symposium; an introduction. SHARE: Studies in History, Archaeology, Religion and Conservation 1(1), pp. 1-3. (10.18573/share.1)
- Brodbeck, S. P. and Hegarty, J. M. 2012. Genealogy and history in South Asia (Religions of South Asia, special issue): introduction. Religions of South Asia 5(1-2), pp. 5-28. (10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.5)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2011. Etymology, genealogy and history in Early South Asia. Religions of South Asia 5(1/2), pp. 103-127.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2009. Re-thinking the guru: Towards a typology of forms of religious domination in pre-Colonial Pañjāb. Religions of South Asia 3(2), pp. 183-202. (10.1558/rosa.v3i2.183)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2009. On platial imagination in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. International Journal of Hindu Studies 13(2), pp. 163-187. (10.1007/s11407-009-9074-3)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2009. Re-thinking the guru: towards a typology of forms of religious domination in pre-Colonial Punjab. Religions of South Asia 3(2), pp. 179-199.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Encompassing the sacrifice: On the narrative construction of the significant past in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 8, pp. 77-118.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Toward an old understanding of philology: exploring the literary construction of place as religious and social commentary in Asia. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 8(1), article number: 3753.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Religion, epic and cultural memory. The construction of the significant past in Sanskrit and Hindi Mahabharatas. Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft 15(2), pp. 179-199. (10.1515/zfr.2007.15.2.179)
- Hegarty, J. M. 2006. Extracting the Katha-amrta (Elixir of Story): Creation, Ritual, Sovereignty and Textual Structure in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Journal of Vaishnava Studies 14(2), pp. 39-60.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2001. An Apprenticeship in Attentiveness: Narrative Patterning in the Dyutaparvan and the Nalopakhyana of the Mahabharata. Rocznik Orientalistyczny 54(1), pp. 33-62.
Gwefannau
- Hegarty, J. 2017. The story of story in early South Asia: character and genre across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain narrative traditions. [Online]. Wordpress: Wordpress. Available at: https://storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com/
Llyfrau
- Hegarty, J. M. 2012. Religion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia: Past and place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Routledge Hindu Studies Series. London: Taylor and Francis.
- Hegarty, J. M. 2012. Religon, narrative and public imagination in South Asia: past and place in the Sanskrit Mahahbharata. London: Routledge.
- Hegarty, J. M. ed. 2007. The literary construction of place as a form of religious and social commentary: Special Issue of "Acta Orientalia Vilnensia" (2007) 8:1. Vilnius: Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University.
Monograffau
- Hegarty, J. M. 2007. Guru and Shabad: The Literary Construction of Religious Authority in Narratives of the Life of Guru Nanak. Discussion Paper. Cardiff University: Cardiff Humanities Research Institute. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chri/researchpapers/humanities/papers1-10/Paper1.html
Ymchwil
Mae fy ymchwil yn archwilio hanes diwylliannol a deallusol crefyddau De Asia. Rwy'n canolbwyntio, yn benodol, ar rôl hanesyddol a diwylliannol traddodiadau straeon crefyddol yn y rhanbarth; mae fy ngwaith yn ymestyn o c. y bumed ganrif CC i'r oes fodern, ac rwyf wedi gweithio ar ffynonellau a thraddodiadau Hindŵaidd, Bwdhaeth, Jain, Sikh, Cristnogol ac Islamaidd. Rwy'n defnyddio theori seicolegol anthropolegol a gwybyddol ar y cyd â dulliau hanesyddol a philolegol.
Mae fy mhrif brosiectau ariannu fel a ganlyn:
Hanes Achau, Achyddiaeth Hanes: Teulu ac Adeiladwaith Naratif y Gorffennol Arwyddocaol yn Ne Asia Gynnar
Mae'r prosiect hwn yn ymchwilio i rôl naratif achyddol yn Ne Asia gynnar; y rhagdybiaeth sylfaenol yw mai trwy gynrychiolaeth disgyniad teuluol, problemus neu fel arall, y cafodd 'hanes' crefyddol ôl-Vedic a 'dychmygol' ei ffurfweddu yn y mileniwm cyntaf yn Ne Asia.
Nod y prosiect hwn yw gwella ein gwybodaeth am rôl achyddiaeth wrth ffurfio dealltwriaeth gonsensws o'r gorffennol yn ne Asia hanesyddol.
AHRC
£180,000
3 blynedd
Testun Beirniadol, Hanesyddol Diwylliannol
Darlithoedd Cyhoeddus, Gweithdai
Stori yn Ne Asia: Cymeriad a Genre ar draws Traddodiadau Naratif Hindŵaidd, Bwdhaidd a Jain
Mae straeon yn bwysig. Trwy stori rydyn ni'n cyfathrebu pwy ydyn ni, pwy ydyn ni, beth rydyn ni'n gobeithio bod a'r hyn rydyn ni'n ofni y gallwn fod. Mae datblygiadau diweddar yn y gwyddorau gwybyddol wedi dangos, mewn ffyrdd sylfaenol, bod angen straeon ar fodau dynol er mwyn trefnu eu hatgofion, i ddysgu, ac i uniaethu â'i gilydd yn llwyddiannus. Mae De Asia Gynnar, efallai yn fwy nag unrhyw le arall ar y ddaear, wedi byw yn a thrwy ei straeon. Mae gan Dde Asia storfa helaeth o draddodiadau stori, a ddefnyddiwyd i fynegi mewnwelediadau i'r hyn ydyw i fod yn ddynol, i sut mae'r byd yn gweithio, ei orffennol, a beth allai fod yn y dyfodol. Mae'r straeon hyn yn rhan annatod o dri o draddodiadau crefyddol mwyaf arwyddocaol y byd, Hindŵaeth, Bwdhaeth a Jainiaeth. Fodd bynnag, mae ymchwil i'r traddodiadau hyn wedi tueddu i aros ar wahân ac ychydig o ymdrech sydd wedi bod naill ai i symud o un 'ism' i'r llall neu i integreiddio safbwyntiau newydd ar naratif a'i rôl mewn cymdeithasau dynol. Mae'r prosiect hwn yn ceisio gwneud yr union beth hwnnw. Ein bwriad yw archwilio rôl naratif ar draws y tri thraddodiad hyn yng nghyd-destun safbwyntiau diweddar a dynnwyd o theori wybyddol ac ieithyddol. Rhaid chwalu tasg mor eang, ac felly mae'r prosiect yn canolbwyntio ar gymeriadau llenyddol sy'n cael eu rhannu gan y tri thraddodiad. Trwy ganolbwyntio ar y cymeriadau hyn (megis Janaka, Sita, Vidura, a Nimi) ac archwilio'r ffordd y cânt eu defnyddio mewn gwahanol draddodiadau naratif a chyd-destunau ideolegol, byddwn yn dechrau olrhain cyfuchliniau byd a rennir o weithgareddau adrodd straeon a chlywed. Roedd y cyd-destun hwn, y byddwn ni'n dadlau, yn rhan annatod o'r ffyrdd y cafodd ideolegau, hunaniaethau a hanesion crefyddol a gwleidyddol eu trosglwyddo a'u haddasu ar ddechrau De Asia. Byddwn hefyd yn awgrymu bod archwilio rôl stori yng nghymdeithas gynnar De Asia, yng ngoleuni dulliau o astudio naratif fel rhan annatod o ddatblygiad gwybyddol a chymdeithasol dynol, yn agor golygfeydd newydd ar gyfer ymchwil i rôl naratif o fewn ac ar draws cymdeithasau cyn-fodern yn fwy cyffredinol. Gall hefyd ein helpu i ddeall nad oes unrhyw ideolegau, hunaniaethau na hanesion, yn sefydlog. Mae hon yn ddealltwriaeth sydd o bwysigrwydd sylweddol os ydym ni, fel cymdeithas, yn annog modelau hunaniaeth cynhwysol a hylifol a 'threftadaeth' grefyddol.
Nod y prosiect hwn yw archwilio rôl naratif ac, yn benodol, cymeriadau a rennir, yn y berthynas rhwng traddodiad Hindŵaidd, Bwdhaidd a Jain.
AHRC
£370,000
3 blynedd
Testun Beirniadol, Hanesyddol Diwylliannol
Darlithoedd Cyhoeddus, Gweithdai, Presenoldeb yn y Gynhadledd.
Addysgu
Pam Astudio De Asia
De Asia bellach yw'r rhanbarth mwyaf poblog ar y Ddaear; ffynhonnell syniadau ac arferion, o'r hen amser i'r presennol, sydd wedi cael effaith fyd-eang; etifedd etifeddiaeth hanesyddol gymhleth o wladychiaeth a'i chanlyniad; Mae yng nghanol y byd heddiw yn economaidd, yn wleidyddol ac yn ddiwylliannol. Pam na fyddech chi'n astudio?
Dyma'r is-gyfandir a roddodd gymaint o'r syniadau a'r arferion crefyddol yr ydym yn eu cymryd yn ganiataol, fel ioga, ymwybyddiaeth ofalgar, myfyrdod, a nirvana i enwi ond ychydig. Mae hefyd yn lle tarddiad traddodiadau Hindŵaidd, Bwdhaeth, Jain a Sikh, yn ogystal â ffurfiau cyfoethog a nodedig o Gristnogaeth, Islam a thraddodiadau eraill, llai adnabyddus, ond dim llai pwysig a hanfodol, o feddwl ac ymarfer crefyddol. Yn ogystal â hyn, De Asia yw cartref rhai o lenyddiaeth a barddoniaeth fwyaf y byd. O 'epics' cywrain ac estynedig fel y Rāmāyaṇa a Mahābhārata, i ddeialogau athronyddol cain, fel y gwelwn yn yr Upaniṣads a'r Nikāyas Bwdhaidd, yn ogystal â datganiadau syml, ond hardd, o ymroddiad i Dduw, nid oes diwedd arno. Ceir dramâu gwych, cerddi hardd a chaneuon torcalonnus yn helaeth. Mae'r rhain yn cael eu saethu drwodd gyda syniadau soffistigedig ac emosiynau o'r galon. Gwnaed hyn i gyd mewn amgylchiadau hanesyddol cymhleth o'r Ymerodraeth Maurya, i Reol Mughal a'r Raj Prydeinig, i enwi dim ond ychydig o gyfnodau allweddol.
Beth ydw i'n ei ddysgu
Fy ardal addysgu yw hanes crefyddau yn Ne Asia, hynafol, canoloesol a modern. Mae hyn yn cynnwys traddodiadau Hindŵaidd, Bwdhaeth, Jain ac Islamaidd a Christnogol Indiaidd, yn ogystal â llenyddiaeth gynnar a chanoloesol De Asia. Rwyf hefyd weithiau'n dysgu'r iaith Sansgrit.
Wrth i mi ddysgu yn y maes hwn, rwy'n archwilio cymynroddion gwladychiaeth, cysyniad crefydd, yn ogystal â sut mae pob bod dynol yn deall ac yn dehongli'r byd o'u cwmpas gan ddefnyddio straeon (sy'n fy arwain hefyd i addysgu, ar adegau, theori wybyddol ac anthropolegol, yn ogystal â hanesyddiaeth De Asia).
Sut rydw i'n dysgu
Mae prifysgolion yn sefydliadau sy'n ymroddedig i ateb cwestiynau mewn ffordd logial a seiliedig ar dystiolaeth. Maent i gyd yn ymwneud â dangos eich gwaith allan. Mae hyn yn hawdd i'w ddweud, ond mae'n anoddach ei wneud. Mae fy ymagwedd at addysgu yn syml, ond nid yw'n hawdd. Rwy'n dysgu dysgwyr sut i ateb cwestiynau am fodau dynol a rôl crefydd yn eu bywydau a'u cymdeithasau (yn hanesyddol ac yn y presennol). Rwy'n eu dysgu sut i wneud hyn yn rhesymegol a chyda thystiolaeth, sy'n dasg gymhleth.
I ddysgu unrhyw dasg gymhleth, mae'n rhaid i chi ei dorri i lawr i'r sgiliau a'r cymwyseddau sylfaenol sy'n ymwneud â'i berfformiad llwyddiannus. Mae hyn yr un mor wir am goginio neu DIY ag ydyw o astudio crefyddau De Asia. Dyw e ddim cymaint 'fedrwch chi ddim gwneud omled heb dorri wyau', gan mai 'ti methu gwneud omled heb wybod sut i dorri wy'. Rwy'n chwalu'r sgiliau sy'n gysylltiedig ag astudio hanes crefyddau a De Asia yn rhannau syml a hylaw, y gellir eu hymarfer a'u mewnoli. Gofynnaf wedyn i ddysgwyr gyfuno'r sgiliau maen nhw'n eu datblygu, o gymwyseddau iaith i ddadansoddi testunau, mewn ffyrdd creadigol nes eu bod yn barod i ateb cwestiynau yn glir, yn rhesymegol a gyda thystiolaeth.
Er mwyn dysgu, mae angen i bawb ddeall pam eu bod yn gwneud yr hyn maen nhw'n ei wneud a beth yw'r manteision iddyn nhw eu hunain ac i eraill. Yn ogystal â hyn, mae angen iddynt deimlo eu bod yn cael eu cefnogi'n emosiynol; rydym i gyd yn cwestiynu ac yn ail ddyfalu ein hunain; Rydym i gyd yn defnyddio'r amser y mae'n ei gymryd i ddysgu unrhyw beth yn dda, fel arwydd na allwn ei wneud, neu nad ydym yn ddigon talentog; Rydyn ni i gyd yn digalonni weithiau. Rwy'n ceisio helpu gyda hyn. Rwy'n addysgu gydag angerdd ac ymrwymiad i bob dysgwr a'u cynnydd.
Fy nod yw sicrhau bod archwilio crefydd a diwylliant De Asia yn brofiad hygyrch a gwerth chweil sy'n newid sut mae dysgwyr yn meddwl am y byd a'u hunain mewn ffyrdd cadarnhaol. Rwyf hefyd yn credu bod ateb cwestiynau gyda rhesymeg a thystiolaeth a dangos eich ymarfer corff, yn hanfodol i gymdeithasau ledled y byd, ac mae hefyd yn wybodaeth gyfoethog a chynnil o hanes, cymdeithasau a chrefyddau byd-eang.
Bywgraffiad
Cefais fy addysg yn Ysgol Ramadeg Enfield a Phrifysgol Manceinion. Cefais fy PhD mewn Llenyddiaeth Sansgrit ar ôl ymgymryd â fy B.A. mewn Crefydd Gymharol a'm M.A. mewn Crefyddau a Diwinyddiaeth (gydag Anthropoleg Gymdeithasol) yn yr un sefydliad. Cefnogodd yr Academi Brydeinig a Chyngor Ymchwil y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau fy astudiaethau graddedig. Rwy'n awdur Crefydd, Naratif a Dychymyg Cyhoeddus yn Ne Asia ar gyfer Routledge (2012), yn ogystal â chyfrolau wedi'u golygu ar Adeiladwaith Llenyddol Lle yn Asia (ar gyfer Orientalia Vilnensia) ac ar Achau a Hanes yn Ne Asia Cyn-fodern, gyda Simon Brodbeck (ar gyfer Crefyddau De Asia). Fi hefyd yw'r golygydd, gyda Laxshmi Greaves, o Lawlyfr newydd Llenyddiaeth Hindŵaidd Rhydychen (ar ddod). Yn ogystal â hyn, rwyf wedi ysgrifennu nifer o erthyglau ysgolheigaidd ar ffynonellau Sansgrit, Pali a brodorol, sy'n rhychwantu De Asia hynafol, canoloesol a modern, yn ogystal â thraddodiad Hindŵaidd, Bwdhaeth, Jain a Sikh. Rwyf hefyd wedi cyhoeddi ar Gristnogaeth yn hanes cenhadol cynnar De Asia a'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
Large Grants (as Principal Investigator)
- 2013-16: AHRC Research Grant: The Story of Story in South Asia: Character, Genre and Role Across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Narrative Traditions. K£370 over three years.
- 2008-11: AHRC Early Career Research Grant: The History of Genealogy, The Genealogy of History: Family and the Narrative Construction of the Significant Past in Early South Asia. K£200 over three years.
Small Grants, Fellowships etc.
- 2017: Co-chair Sanskrit Epics Section, 2018 World Sanskrit Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
- 2016: Cardiff University Research Opportunities Grant – involved sending UG student to engage in bibliographic research on early print Indian epics at Cambridge University.
- 2016: Con-convenor, with Simon Brodbeck, of 41st Spalding Symposium. Funded by the Spalding Foundation.
- 2012: Visiting Fellowship: Lumbini International Research Institute, Nepal.
- 2009: British Academy Overseas Conference Attendance Award: World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto University Japan.
- 2008: Cardiff University International Research Collaboration Award: Visiting Fellowship for Prof. Adheesh Sathaye.
- 2007: International Research Collaboration Award from Cardiff University in order to take up Visiting Professorship Invitation from University of British Columbia, Canada.
- 2007: British Academy Overseas Conference Attendance Award: Religious Syncretism in South and South East Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand
- 2006: British Academy Overseas Conference Attendance Award: Religion and Cultural Memory, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- 2006: Strategic Research Leave Award, Cardiff University: six months spent as visiting scholar at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala (hosted by Prof. R. Gurrukal).
- 2004: Teaching and Learning Grant, Cardiff University: Using Posters to Present Research in the Arts and Humanities.
- 2002: Visiting doctoral student at the University of Pune and Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India.
Honours and Distinctions
- 2000: University of Manchester Brandon Memorial Prize for excellence in first year doctoral research.
- 1996: University of Manchester award for highest overall graduating mark in department for BA.
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Rwyf wedi bod yn Gymrawd y Gymdeithas Frenhinol Asiaidd a'r Gymdeithas Hanes Frenhinol
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
Awst 2018 i Gyflwyno: Athro Crefyddau De Asia
Medi 2018 - Medi 2023: Pennaeth yr Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
Awst 2014 i Orffennaf 2017:
Darllenydd mewn Crefyddau Indiaidd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd (SHARE)
Awst 2009 i Gorffennaf 2014:
Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Crefyddau Indiaidd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, yr Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd (SHARE)
Gorffennaf 2003 i Gorffennaf 2009:
Darlithydd mewn Crefyddau Indiaidd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Ysgol Astudiaethau Crefyddol a Diwinyddol (RELIG)
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
Rwyf wedi adolygu ar gyfer llawer o gyhoeddwyr academaidd mawr (Rhydychen, Routledge ac ati).
Rwyf wedi adolygu ar gyfer nifer o gyfnodolion sy'n cyhoeddi yn fy maes astudio.
Rwyf wedi gwasanaethu fel aelod rheolaidd o'r panel ac yn gadeirydd ar gyfer ceisiadau am grant ymchwil ar gyfer Cyngor Ymchwil y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau ac Ymchwil ac Arloesi y DU.
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I am available to supervise dissertations on all aspects of the history of Sanskrit religious literature, as well as projects that explore South Asian narrative traditions. I am particularly interested in projects that work across South Asian religions and those which take up issues of the use of traditional narrative in politics, cultural memory and the negotiation of group identitites (from the earliest times to the present).
Themâu ymchwil
Arbenigeddau
- Llenyddiaeth Indiaidd
- Hindŵaeth
- Sansgrit
- Bwdhaeth
- Sansgrit
