About the Author

Laurie Patton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Early Indian Religions and Chair of Department of Religion at Emory University. She earned her BA from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is the author of many scholarly articles on Hinduism. Patton is editor of Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation*(SUNY, 1994).