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Arvind Sharma
Indian professor of Comparative Religion (born 1940) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. Sharma's works focus on Hinduism, philosophy of religion. In editing books his works include Our Religions and Women in World Religions, Feminism in World Religions was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1999).[1]
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Born | (1940-01-13) 13 January 1940 (age 84) |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Allahabad University (B.A. 1958), Syracuse University (M.A. in economics, 1970), Harvard University (M.T.S. in Theological Studies, 1974; PhD in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, 1978) |
Known for | Comparative Religion, the philosophy of religion, human rights and religion, theoretical and methodological issues in the study of religion, Advaita Vedanta, Hindu studies, Sanskrit studies, Women in religion |
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Fields | Religious Studies |
Institutions | McGill University |
Website | Arvind Sharma |
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