Timothy Lubin

Region of Interest

South Asia

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law

Affiliation

Washington and Lee University

Email

lubint@wlu.edu

Mailing Address

Tucker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phones: 540-458-8146
fax: 540-458-8283

Websites

http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint

Countries of Specialization

India, Nepal, Indonesia

Research Interests

South Asian religious history, dharmasastra / dharmashastra, law and legalism,
Veda / Vedism / Vedic studies; Upanisads / Upanishads;
Sanskrit, Pali, Hindu, Brahmanism, sacrifice, ritual studies,
Saiva / Shaiva / Shaivism, hermeneutics, epigraphy / inscription;
manuscript; textual criticism; trans-regional culture;
Sanskritization.

Publications

2015
"Writing and the Recognition of Customary Law in Premodern India and Java." Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 135, No. 2 (April–June 2015), pp. 225-259

2013
"Legal Diglossia: Modeling Discursive Practices in Premodern Indic Law." In: Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani (eds.), Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in mediaeval India. Collection Indologie, 121. Institut français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013, pp. 411-455. . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1720704

2010
Co-editor, with Donald R. Davis Jr. and Jayanth K. Krishnan.
Hinduism and law : an introduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press.

"Indic conceptions of authority," In: Hinduism and law : an introduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press.

Keywords

dharmashastra ; Vedic ; Upanisads ; Sanskrit ; Pali ; Hinduism ; Brahmanism ; Saiva.