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Matthew Robertson

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Matthew Robertson

Matthew Robertson

Lecturer
Religious Studies Program Coordinator

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
  • M.A., St. John’s College, New Mexico, 2009
  • B.S., Truman State University, 2005

Publications

  • Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India. Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • “The Yogi Physician: The Conscious Self and the Yoga of Karmic Observation in Early Ayurvedic Medicine.” Numen 70 (2023): 220-253. ()
  • “Bigness, Brilliance, the Buddhi, and the Brāhmaṇya Yoked-Up King.”&Բ;Journal of Hindu Studies 13, no.3 (2020): 1-23.( )
  • “Bliss and Bodily Disorientation: The Autophagous Mysticism of Georges Bataille and the Taittirīya Upaniṣad.” In Transformative Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Body, Sensory Body, and Spatial Body (Routledge Press), edited by George Pati and Katherine Zubko, 2019. ()
  •  “The Autophagous Absolute: Revelations of Cosmic and Sovereign Violence in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad and the Bhagavad Gītā.”&Բ;Journal of Religion and Violence 6, no.1 (2018): 73-105. ()
  • “The Identity of Person and World in Caraka Saṃhitā 4.5,”&Բ;Journal of Indian Philosophy 45 (2017): 837-861. ()
  • “In a Time Gone Mad: Indic Notions of Madness in the Mahābhārata and Beyond,”&Բ;Journal of Hindu Studies 9 (2016): 111-144. ()
  • “The Unconscious Mind.” In, Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies. Edited by Matt Cardin. ABC-Clio Inc., 2015.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • History of South Asia
  • South Asian Religions
  • Religion and Medicine
  • Religion and the Environment
  • Religion and Violence

Courses Taught

  • CIV 201 – World Civilizations and Cultures I
  • HIS/RGS 209 – Survey of World Religions
  • RGS 305 – Studying Religion
  • HIS/RGS 324 – Science and Religion
  • HIS 359 – Early India
  • HIS 373 – Religions of Asia

 

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