Anne Feldhaus (Phelḍahāusa, Âna; born 1949) is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus Professor, at

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. Her field of specialty is

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, combining philological and ethnographic approaches to study religious traditions of Maharashtra, the Marathi-language region of western India.Anne Feldhaus
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Honors and awards

Among her awards and honors are Fulbright-Hays Research Award (1993–1994)(1987–1989);

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Research Award (1995); John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2002–2003);

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, Fellowship for Independent Research (2007–2008).Curriculum Vitae
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2018- 2019. and in 2020 was elected to the

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Academic career

She first went to India as an undergraduate in 1970, lived with a Brahman family, and later recalled that her "knowledge of Indian culture was confined to translations of the Bhagavad Gita (which I found immoral) and some Upanishads (which I found incomprehensible)." She also recalled, however, that her "Roman Catholic childhood and Sacred Heart education had prepared me quite well to appreciate an all-encompassing ritualization of life." After graduating from

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in 1971, she earned her Doctor's degree in Religious Thought at

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in 1976. She joined the faculty of

in 1981, and became full professor there in 1988.

Selected publications

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References

External links

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