Template:More citations needed Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst or Jackie Hirst is a senior lecturer in comparative religion and South Asian studies at Manchester University.[1]
She has an MA and PhD from Cambridge University and is a qualified teacher, and taught religious education in a school for five years. She was a senior lecturer at Homerton College, training teachers to teach religious education, before moving to Manchester in 1994.[1]
She has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, in an episode first broadcast on 6 October 2016 on the topic of Lakshmi.[2]
Selected publications
- [{{{url}}} Negotiating Secularity: Indira Gandhi, Ānandamayī Mā, and the Eliya Rajah of Travancore].
- [{{{url}}} Sita's story]. Bayeux Arts.
- [{{{url}}} Religious traditions in modern South Asia]. London.
- [{{{url}}} Philosophy of the enlightenment (routledge revivals) : the christian]. Routledge.
- [{{{url}}} Samkara's advaita vedanta : a way of teaching]. Routledge.
- [{{{url}}} Fire tongues: narrative patterning in the Sanskrit Mahabharata]. University of Manchester.
- [{{{url}}} Playing for real : Hindu role models, religion, and gender]. New Delhi.
- [{{{url}}} Hinduism in modern indonesia]. Routledgecurzon.
- The teacher and the Avatara : Mediators of realisation in Samkara's Advaitin theology. University of Cambridge.
Works published for children
- [{{{url}}} Hinduism]. Longman.
- The Story of the Hindus{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Cambridge UP(1987). ISBN 9780521269001
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dr Jackie Hirst. The University of Manchester.
- ↑ Lakshmi. In Our Time. BBC Radio 4(2016).
External links
- Template:Official website
- Lakshmi, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time, link. Jacqueline Suthren-Hirst on the panel with Jessica Frazier and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad.
- Vimeo "Religious Traditions in Modern South Asia - Dr Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and Dr John Zavos"