Faculty

Institution

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Adam L Newman

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

Department of Religion

Adam L Newman is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Adam L Newman

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor

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anthropology cultural history religious symbol ethnohistory religious studies religion religious research civilizations ritual history of art archaeology classics empire historiography sculpture heritage studies asian studies islamic thought literary history poetics levant archaeological practice historical geography ancient mesoamerica scientific study of religion cultural practices spirituality orientalism folklore tradition folklore studies hauntology south asian culture archaeological record historical archaeology interfaith śaiva siddhānta rite sacred space fifteenth-century ekaliṅgamāhātmya bodily representations medieval rajasthan medieval mewar spatial context hawk goddess hindu ritual ritual theory contemporary asia east asian languages cultural studies south asia

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Body, Community, Cosmos: A ŚAiva SiddhāNta Rite of Initiation. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body (2023)

Adam L Newman

anthropologyreligious symbolcultural practicesspiritualityreligious studiesreligionśaiva siddhānta ritereligious researchritual

Lineage in Its Spatial Context: Epigraphy, Geography, and the Formation of Political Unity in Medieval Mewar. The Journal of Hindu Studies (2022)

Adam Newman

levantcultural historyhistoryhistorical geographyhistorical archaeologyspatial contextarchaeological practicecivilizationsarchaeologymedieval mewarmedieval rajasthansouth asian culturehistoriographyarchaeological recordethnohistory

RĀṢṬRASENĀ: Hawk Goddess of the Mewar Mountains. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond (2020)

Adam L Newman

hawk goddessanthropologysculpturearchaeologyancient mesoamericaethnohistory

Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekaliṅgamāhātmya. Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies (2019)

Adam L Newman

classicsanthropologyreligious symbolcultural historyliterary historyhistory of artpoeticsbodily representationsfolklore studiesfolklore traditionhauntologyethnohistory

Constructing Sacred Space in Mewar: Text, Temple, and Landscape in the Fifteenth-Century EkaliṅGamāHāTmya..

Adam L Newman

orientalismreligious symbolsacred spacecultural historyhistory of artheritage studiesasian studiesreligious studiesfifteenth-century ekaliṅgamāhātmyacivilizationsempireislamic thoughtreligionreligious researchethnohistory

Review of Axel Michaels Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Significance for Ritual Theory. Reading Religion, a publication of the American Academy of Religion

Adam L Newman

anthropologyreligious symbolcultural historyscientific study of religionreligious studieshindu ritualritual theoryyogareligioninterfaithreligious researchritual

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Adam L Newman

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

Department of Religion

Adam L Newman is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Honors

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Experiences

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Adam L Newman

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Body, Community, Cosmos: A ŚAiva SiddhāNta Rite of Initiation. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body (2023)

Adam L Newman

anthropologyreligious symbolcultural practicesspiritualityreligious studiesreligionśaiva siddhānta ritereligious researchritual

Lineage in Its Spatial Context: Epigraphy, Geography, and the Formation of Political Unity in Medieval Mewar. The Journal of Hindu Studies (2022)

Adam Newman

RĀṢṬRASENĀ: Hawk Goddess of the Mewar Mountains. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond (2020)

Adam L Newman

hawk goddessanthropologysculpturearchaeologyancient mesoamericaethnohistory

Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekaliṅgamāhātmya. Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies (2019)

Adam L Newman

classicsanthropologyreligious symbolcultural historyliterary historyhistory of artpoeticsbodily representationsfolklore studiesfolklore traditionhauntologyethnohistory

Constructing Sacred Space in Mewar: Text, Temple, and Landscape in the Fifteenth-Century EkaliṅGamāHāTmya..

Adam L Newman

Review of Axel Michaels Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Significance for Ritual Theory. Reading Religion, a publication of the American Academy of Religion

Adam L Newman

anthropologyreligious symbolcultural historyscientific study of religionreligious studieshindu ritualritual theoryyogareligioninterfaithreligious researchritual

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