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Paul B. Courtright

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Paul B. Courtright
  • Role: Associated Faculty
  • Education: PhD, Princeton M. Div., Yale
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Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Emory University

PAUL B. COURTRIGHT is professor of religion and Asian studies and former chair of the Department of Religion and of Asian Studies at Emory University. His specialties are Hindu marriage, pilgrimage traditions, and religions in British colonial India. His graduate and undergraduate teaching interests focus on religions of South Asia, particularly Hinduism; religious change in nineteenth century India, religion and media, and the history of the study of religion.