Nancy M. Martin
Professor Nancy
Martin received her M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and her
Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in conjunction with the University of
California, Berkeley. An Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Chapman
University, she is an historian of religion with expertise in Asian religions,
gender issues, and comparative ethics. Involved in extensive fieldwork in
Rajasthan, her research focuses on devotional Hinduism, women's religious lives,
and the religious traditions of low-caste groups in India. Her book on the
sixteenth-century saint Mirabai, entitled Mirabai: A Woman Poet-Saint in
India, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is the recipient of
the Graves Award for the Humanities, and fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies, and she is a
Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. With Joseph Runzo, she is
Co-editor of The Meaning of Life in the
World Religions; Love, Sex and Gender
in the World Religions; Ethics in the World Religions; and
Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions, and General
Co-Editor of the "Library of Global Ethics and Religion." Together
they jointly delivered the Lowell Lecture for 2001 in comparative ethics at
Boston University, and Dr. Martin has lectured widely on devotional Hinduism,
religion and human rights, and comparative ethics in India, China, Italy,
Germany, Belgium, England, South Africa, and the USA, including at the
Parliament of the World Religions in 1998.
Contact: martin@gerforum.org
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