Christian Lee Novetzke

Christian Lee Novetzke is an American

Novetzke received a B.A. from Macalester College in 1993 and an M.T.S. in Religious Studies from Harvard University in 1996. In 2003, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Columbia University.

After teaching in the departments of South Asian Studies and Religious Studies at the

Novetzke's first book, Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India, was awarded Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion.^[6]

Throughout his career, he has been awarded fellowships and grants by institutions such as Fulbright, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.^[7]

Reception for Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation

In 2016, Novetzke, along with co-authors William Elison and Andy Rotman, published a book on the 1977

In his review of the book in the Hindu, Jai Arjun Singh notes, "Here's a scholarly work about a popular film that also tries to mimic something of the film's controlled lunacy, winking at itself every now and again."[12]

Frontline's C.S. Venkiteswaran calls the work "an eminently readable book that will delight any cineaste for its sheer passion for cinema and for the delightful theoretical dexterity with which it weaves a complex and rich web of information and analysis."^[13]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
  ISBN 9780231141857
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• Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation (with William Elison and Andy Rotman). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
  ISBN 9780674504486
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• The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
  ISBN 9780231175807
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• "Twice Dalit: The Poetry of Hira Bansode in Translation," Journal of South Asian Literature. Vol. 28, Nos. 1 and 2 (Spring 1995): 279-96.[1]
• "Divining an Author: The Idea of Authorship in an Indian Religious Tradition," History of Religions, Vol. 42, No.3 (February 2003): 213-242.[2]
• "The Laine Controversy and the Study of Hinduism," International Journal of Hindu Studies. Vol. 8, Issues 1-3 (2004): 183-201.[3]
• "The Study of Indian Religions in the US Academy," India Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 2006): 91-121.[4]
• "The Subaltern Numen: Making History in the Name of God." History of Religions, Vol. 46, No. 2 (November 2006): 99-126.[5]
• "Bhakti and Its Public," International Journal of Hindu Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (December 2007): 255-272.[6]
• "The Theographic and the Historiographic in an Indian Sacred Life Story," Sikh Formations, Vol. 3, No. 2 (December 2007): 169-184.[7]
• "The Brahman Double: The Brahminical Construction of Anti-Brahminism and Anti-Caste Sentiment in the Religious Culture of Pre-Colonial Maharashtra," South Asia History and Cul1ture, Vol. 2, No. 2 (April 2012): 232-252.[8]

References

External links

• Christian Lee Novetzke's University of Washington page
• Christian Lee Novetzke's page on Academia.org
• The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington
• The Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington
• The South Asia Center at the University of Washington
• Comparative Religion at the University of Washington