Madhuri Yadlapati

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Part-Time Instructor of Religious Studies

105 Coates Hall

myadlapa@lsu.edu

Dr. Yadlapati teaches courses in world religions, faith and doubt, modern religious thought, and Asian traditions. Her book, Against Dogmatism: Dwelling in Faith and Doubt, examines the role of doubt in a number of traditional formulations of religious faith. Her other research interests develop issues in interreligious studies.

B.A. in Religious Studies, Wake Forest University (1993)

M.A. in Religious Studies, New York University (1995)

Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Yale University (2002)

REL 1000: Religions of the World

REL 2001: Faith and Doubt

REL 2027: Asian Religions

REL 2029: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

REL 4012: History of Modern Christian Thought

REL 4227: Contemporary Christian Thought

REL/ENGL 4236: Religion and Literature

HNRS 2020: God, Religion, and Skepticism

Recipient of Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award (2008)

Books

Against Dogmatism: Dwelling in Faith and Doubt (University of Illinois Press, 2013) 

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters

"The Problem with Karma: A Levinasian Critique and Christian-Hindu Theological Rehabilitation.,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 46 (2011): 183-200

“Sita and Sarah: Female Complementarity or Special Revelation," Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies 9 (2007): 77-84

“Impossibility, God, and Religious Experience,” Ars Disputandi 6 (2006):187-96