Nathan Mcgovern
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Mcgovern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgovern |
| SIGNATURE | MCGOVERN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Whitewater |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-0400-9082 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Literary Turn in Epic Studies: A Reflection on Five Studies of Characters in the Sanskrit Epics
Brian Black, In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata. Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History series
Simon Brodbeck, Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata—or, Why Does the Kṛṣṇa Avatāra Inaugurate the Worst Yuga: Cardiff: Cardiff University Press, 2022. 210 pages
Towards a Theory of Oral Criticism for Early Buddhist Scripture
Because they were originally composed and passed down in oral form, the early Buddhist texts are not amenable to analysis through the tools of standard textual criticism. Taking Milman Parry’s oral theory as a starting point, this article suggests the possibility of an “oral criticism” that can be used with early Buddhist texts and proposes three basic principles to be used therein: (1) applying source criticism to themes rather than texts, (2) c…
Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadanasataka 1–40, by Naomi Appleton
Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadanasataka 1–40, by Naomi Appleton. Sheffield: Equinox, 2020. x + 245 pp., £75 (hb), £26.95 (pb or ebook). ISBN 9781781798966 (hb), 9781781798973 (pb), 9781781798980 (ePDF)
La formation du Mahavastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva, by Vincent Tournier
La formation du Mahavastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva, by Vincent Tournier. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2017. xxiv + 631 pp. €45 (pb). ISBN 978-2-85539-133-5
Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, by Khammai Dhammasami
Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, by Khammai Dhammasami. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 272 pp., ?85 (hb), ?28.99 (pb). ISBN 978-1-3500-5424-0 (hb), 978-1-3501-2306-9 (pb)
De-Centering the Normative in the Introduction to Buddhism Class
In this article, I present an alternative method for teaching the Intro to Buddhism class. The standard way of teaching this class allows little room for non-normative aspects of Buddhism such as violence, and insofar as it does, it implicitly frames them as “aberrations” from “real Buddhism.” In my syllabus, I began by having students read The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh, which teaches them about Buddhist doctrine with a se…
New Decade, New Directions: Advancing the Study of Southeast Asian Religions
The Snake and the Mongoose
This book turns the commonly accepted model of the origins of the early Indian religions on its head. Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the major early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been based on an assumed dichotomy between two metahistorical identities: “the Brahmans” and the newer “non-Brahmanical” śramaṇa movements. Textbook and scholarly accounts typically purport a…
The Brahman as the Head of a Household: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion
This chapter, complementing the previous one, examines the articulation of Brahman identity that understood the Brahman to be a non-celibate householder, namely, that found in the Dharma Sūtras. It shows that the Dharma Sūtras were not simply intra-Brahmanical texts, but rather polemical texts articulating a particular, non-celibate vision of Brahmanical identity. They did so first by using for the first time a fully explicit statement of the var…
Der Buddha und der ‘Andere’: Zur religiösen Differenzreflexion und narrativen Darstellung des ‘Anderen’ im Majjhima-Nikaya, by Caroline Widmer
Der Buddha und der ‘Andere’: Zur religiösen Differenzreflexion und narrativen Darstellung des ‘Anderen’ im Majjhima-Nikaya, by Caroline Widmer. Zurich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. 434 pp., €140 (hb). ISBN 978-3-525-54038-1 (hb)
Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan
Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxii + 385 pp., $69.95 (hb), $34.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-51579-5 (hb), 978-0-521-73419-6 (pb)
The Brahmins at the Turn of the Common Era: Rethinking Chronology, Motivations, and External Influences
Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception, by Eviatar Shulman
Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception, by Eviatar Shulman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xviii + 206 pp., $85.50 (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-06239-9 (hb), 978-1-107-69538-2 (pb)
Balancing the foreign and the familiar in the articulation of kingship: The royal court Brahmans of Thailand
Scholars of Southeast Asia have for several decades moved away from theories of ‘Indianisation’, in favour of theories of ‘localisation’. So far, however, there has been little attempt to apply the methodological shift from Indianisation to localisation to an important living relic of the prime agents of older Indianisation theories: the royal court Brahmans of Thailand. In this article, I examine the history of this still-functioning Southeast A…
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India, written by Roman Sieler
A Buddhist Cult Of Brahmā: Thick Description And Micro-Histories in the Study of Religion
Feeding the Dead: Ancestor Worship in Ancient India . By Matthew R. Sayers
Journal Article Feeding the Dead: Ancestor Worship in Ancient India . By Matthew R. Sayers. Get access Feeding the Dead: Ancestor Worship in Ancient India . By Matthew R. Sayers . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . ISBN: 978-0-19-989643-1 . pp. xvi, 187. $93.30 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). Nathan McGovern Nathan McGovern Dalhousie University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journ…
Brahmā: An Early and Ultimately Doomed Attempt at a Brahmanical Synthesis
Brahmā: An Early and Ultimately Doomed Attempt at a Brahmanical Synthesis
Towards a Theory of Oral Criticism for Early Buddhist Scripture
Because they were originally composed and passed down in oral form, the early Buddhist texts are not amenable to analysis through the tools of standard textual criticism. Taking Milman Parry’s oral theory as a starting point, this article suggests the possibility of an “oral criticism” that can be used with early Buddhist texts and proposes three basic principles to be used therein: (1) applying source criticism to themes rather than texts, (2) c…
Balancing the foreign and the familiar in the articulation of kingship: The royal court Brahmans of Thailand
Scholars of Southeast Asia have for several decades moved away from theories of ‘Indianisation’, in favour of theories of ‘localisation’. So far, however, there has been little attempt to apply the methodological shift from Indianisation to localisation to an important living relic of the prime agents of older Indianisation theories: the royal court Brahmans of Thailand. In this article, I examine the history of this still-functioning Southeast A…
Brahmā: An Early and Ultimately Doomed Attempt at a Brahmanical Synthesis
Feeding the Dead: Ancestor Worship in Ancient India . By Matthew R. Sayers
Journal Article Feeding the Dead: Ancestor Worship in Ancient India . By Matthew R. Sayers. Get access Feeding the Dead: Ancestor Worship in Ancient India . By Matthew R. Sayers . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . ISBN: 978-0-19-989643-1 . pp. xvi, 187. $93.30 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). Nathan McGovern Nathan McGovern Dalhousie University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journ…
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India, written by Roman Sieler
A Buddhist Cult Of Brahmā: Thick Description And Micro-Histories in the Study of Religion
Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception, by Eviatar Shulman
Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception, by Eviatar Shulman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xviii + 206 pp., $85.50 (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-06239-9 (hb), 978-1-107-69538-2 (pb)
Balancing the foreign and the familiar in the articulation of kingship: The royal court Brahmans of Thailand
Scholars of Southeast Asia have for several decades moved away from theories of ‘Indianisation’, in favour of theories of ‘localisation’. So far, however, there has been little attempt to apply the methodological shift from Indianisation to localisation to an important living relic of the prime agents of older Indianisation theories: the royal court Brahmans of Thailand. In this article, I examine the history of this still-functioning Southeast A…
The Snake and the Mongoose
This book turns the commonly accepted model of the origins of the early Indian religions on its head. Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the major early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been based on an assumed dichotomy between two metahistorical identities: “the Brahmans” and the newer “non-Brahmanical” śramaṇa movements. Textbook and scholarly accounts typically purport a…
The Brahman as the Head of a Household: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion
This chapter, complementing the previous one, examines the articulation of Brahman identity that understood the Brahman to be a non-celibate householder, namely, that found in the Dharma Sūtras. It shows that the Dharma Sūtras were not simply intra-Brahmanical texts, but rather polemical texts articulating a particular, non-celibate vision of Brahmanical identity. They did so first by using for the first time a fully explicit statement of the var…
Der Buddha und der ‘Andere’: Zur religiösen Differenzreflexion und narrativen Darstellung des ‘Anderen’ im Majjhima-Nikaya, by Caroline Widmer
Der Buddha und der ‘Andere’: Zur religiösen Differenzreflexion und narrativen Darstellung des ‘Anderen’ im Majjhima-Nikaya, by Caroline Widmer. Zurich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. 434 pp., €140 (hb). ISBN 978-3-525-54038-1 (hb)
Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan
Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxii + 385 pp., $69.95 (hb), $34.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-51579-5 (hb), 978-0-521-73419-6 (pb)
The Brahmins at the Turn of the Common Era: Rethinking Chronology, Motivations, and External Influences
La formation du Mahavastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva, by Vincent Tournier
La formation du Mahavastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva, by Vincent Tournier. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2017. xxiv + 631 pp. €45 (pb). ISBN 978-2-85539-133-5
Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, by Khammai Dhammasami
Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, by Khammai Dhammasami. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 272 pp., ?85 (hb), ?28.99 (pb). ISBN 978-1-3500-5424-0 (hb), 978-1-3501-2306-9 (pb)
De-Centering the Normative in the Introduction to Buddhism Class
In this article, I present an alternative method for teaching the Intro to Buddhism class. The standard way of teaching this class allows little room for non-normative aspects of Buddhism such as violence, and insofar as it does, it implicitly frames them as “aberrations” from “real Buddhism.” In my syllabus, I began by having students read The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh, which teaches them about Buddhist doctrine with a se…
New Decade, New Directions: Advancing the Study of Southeast Asian Religions
Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadanasataka 1–40, by Naomi Appleton
Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadanasataka 1–40, by Naomi Appleton. Sheffield: Equinox, 2020. x + 245 pp., £75 (hb), £26.95 (pb or ebook). ISBN 9781781798966 (hb), 9781781798973 (pb), 9781781798980 (ePDF)
Brian Black, In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata. Dialogues in South Asian Traditions: Religion, Philosophy, Literature and History series
Simon Brodbeck, Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata—or, Why Does the Kṛṣṇa Avatāra Inaugurate the Worst Yuga: Cardiff: Cardiff University Press, 2022. 210 pages
Towards a Theory of Oral Criticism for Early Buddhist Scripture
Because they were originally composed and passed down in oral form, the early Buddhist texts are not amenable to analysis through the tools of standard textual criticism. Taking Milman Parry’s oral theory as a starting point, this article suggests the possibility of an “oral criticism” that can be used with early Buddhist texts and proposes three basic principles to be used therein: (1) applying source criticism to themes rather than texts, (2) c…
The Literary Turn in Epic Studies: A Reflection on Five Studies of Characters in the Sanskrit Epics
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