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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Tübingen (Germany), 1998
U of M Affiliation(s)
Center for South Asian Studies
Contact Information
University of Michigan
202 South Thayer Building - 1608
Phone: 734-615-8538
Email: sriraman@umich.edu |
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Fields of Study
Hindu Studies
About Srilata Raman
Srilata Raman works on medieval South Asian/South Indian religion, bhakti, historiography and hagiography, religious movements in early colonial India from the South as well as modern Tamil literature.
Her book Self-Surrender (Prapatti) to God in Srivaishnavism: Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys? (Routledge forthcoming 2006-2007) is a textual study of a theological concept in medieval Srivaisnavism which shows that sectarian formation in that period, in its theological dimension, is a fluid and ambivalent enterprise, where conflict and differentiation are presaged on "sharing", whether of a common canon, a common saint, a common corpus of rituals or the "meta-social" arena of the temple itself.
Her current work focuses on early colonial Tamil Saivism and the reformulations of religion, linked to notions of the body, in the writings of Ramalinga Adigal (1823-1874). The areas of interest in the medieval, on the one hand, and the early colonial, on the other, are bridged by an overall concern with thematizing both the ruptures and the continuities between pre-modernity and modernity, the historiography of religious traditions in both as well as the insidious transformation of theology.
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