Valerie Stoker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1443455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Stoker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoker |
| SIGNATURE | STOKER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wright State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6674-4982 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
Meta
The academic study of religion in the United States is in crisis as departments close and tenured faculty are terminated. Simultaneously, we are witnessing not only an unprecedented alliance between religion and politics at the federal level, but the turning of many non‐religion scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals to religion as the last possible explanation for otherwise inexplicable current events. Religion scholars, looking to defe…
In Charisma’s Wake
As religious reformers who, since their origins in late thirteenth-century Tulunadu, sought to correct what they believed were false interpretations of the Vedic canon, Mādhva Brahmins have thought actively about processes of social and intellectual change. This article examines several Sanskrit texts attributed to fourteenth-century Mādhva authors that recount the movement’s origins and contemplate how past forces had corrupted the canon and wha…
Darbār, maṭha, devasthānam
This essay examines the nexus of the court (darbār), monastery (maṭha) and temple (devasthānam) through the career of the monastic leader, Vyāsatīrtha (1460–1539). Vyāsatīrtha was head of the Mādhva Brahmin sect under successive Vijayanagara emperors, most notably, Krishnadevarāya (r. 1509–1529). He is famous for his doctrinal polemics against alternative forms of Vedānta advanced by rival sects and in favour of his own system of thought often ca…
Polemics and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara
Vedic Language and Vaiṣṇava Theology
Zero Tolerance? Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec
This article examines an officially resolved, yet still controversial, debate over the right of Sikh students in Québec to carry kirpāns (or ceremonial daggers) as markers of religious identity to public school. It documents the ways in which conflicting Canadian and Québécois conceptions of secularism influenced how various non-Sikh participants in the debate responded to Sikh presentations of the kirpān. Yet, it also demonstrates how Sikh activ…
Conceiving the Canon in Dvaita Vedanta
The past decade has witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the Veda's status as a canon for precolonial, Brahminical Hinduism. In an effort to refute the notion that Hinduism is a purely Orientalist construct, several scholars have attempted to locate an indigenous set of shared religious beliefs in Brahmins' consistent reference to the Veda as the standard for religious orthodoxy. Yet even as such arguments posit the Veda as a unifying featur…
Drawing the Line
Drawing the Line
Zero Tolerance? Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec
This article examines an officially resolved, yet still controversial, debate over the right of Sikh students in Québec to carry kirpāns (or ceremonial daggers) as markers of religious identity to public school. It documents the ways in which conflicting Canadian and Québécois conceptions of secularism influenced how various non-Sikh participants in the debate responded to Sikh presentations of the kirpān. Yet, it also demonstrates how Sikh activ…
Vedic Language and Vaiṣṇava Theology
Drawing the Line
Conceiving the Canon in Dvaita Vedanta
The past decade has witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the Veda's status as a canon for precolonial, Brahminical Hinduism. In an effort to refute the notion that Hinduism is a purely Orientalist construct, several scholars have attempted to locate an indigenous set of shared religious beliefs in Brahmins' consistent reference to the Veda as the standard for religious orthodoxy. Yet even as such arguments posit the Veda as a unifying featur…
Vedic Language and Vaiṣṇava Theology
Zero Tolerance? Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Quebec
This article examines an officially resolved, yet still controversial, debate over the right of Sikh students in Québec to carry kirpāns (or ceremonial daggers) as markers of religious identity to public school. It documents the ways in which conflicting Canadian and Québécois conceptions of secularism influenced how various non-Sikh participants in the debate responded to Sikh presentations of the kirpān. Yet, it also demonstrates how Sikh activ…
Polemics and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara
Darbār, maṭha, devasthānam
This essay examines the nexus of the court (darbār), monastery (maṭha) and temple (devasthānam) through the career of the monastic leader, Vyāsatīrtha (1460–1539). Vyāsatīrtha was head of the Mādhva Brahmin sect under successive Vijayanagara emperors, most notably, Krishnadevarāya (r. 1509–1529). He is famous for his doctrinal polemics against alternative forms of Vedānta advanced by rival sects and in favour of his own system of thought often ca…
In Charisma’s Wake
As religious reformers who, since their origins in late thirteenth-century Tulunadu, sought to correct what they believed were false interpretations of the Vedic canon, Mādhva Brahmins have thought actively about processes of social and intellectual change. This article examines several Sanskrit texts attributed to fourteenth-century Mādhva authors that recount the movement’s origins and contemplate how past forces had corrupted the canon and wha…
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
Meta
The academic study of religion in the United States is in crisis as departments close and tenured faculty are terminated. Simultaneously, we are witnessing not only an unprecedented alliance between religion and politics at the federal level, but the turning of many non‐religion scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals to religion as the last possible explanation for otherwise inexplicable current events. Religion scholars, looking to defe…
Philosophy (7 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)