Brian Collins
窪蹋勛圖 faculty member since 2013.
Education
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in History of Religions (2010); University of Chicago, M.A. in History of Religions (2003); North Carolina State University, B.A. in Religious Studies and B.A. in Psychology, (2001)
Specializations
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Comparative Mythology
- Intellectual History of Religious Studies
- Religion, the Paranormal, and the Occult
Courses Taught
- CARS 2400 Introduction to the Study of Religion
- CARS 2410 The Global Occult: Ghosts, Demonology, and the Paranormal in World Religions
- CARS 2430 The History of Yoga: From Ancient Discipline to Modern Movement
- CARS 3100 Hinduism
- CARS 3110 Buddhism
- CARS 3130 Indian Epic: Mahbhrata and Rmay廜a
- CARS 3260 Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
- CARS 4000 Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Classical Civilizations and the World's Religions
- CARS 4900 Religious Traditions of India (Study Abroad Course)
Selected Publications
. Religious Studies Review Vol. 47, No.1 (Mar. 2021).
. In Visions and Revisions. Edited by Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2023.
Paraurma, Dro廜a, and Avatthman: A Comparative Study of Brahmin Warriors in the Mahbhrata. In NOMEN NVMEN: Espressioni del sacro tra storia delle religioni, linguistica e archeologia, Atti del convegno Universit degli Studi della Campania Vanvitelli, Santa Maria Capua Vetere 15-16 Aprile 2019. Edited by Marcello do Martino and Claudia Santi, 177-192. Lugano: Agora & Co, 2021
Myth. In The Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics: Volume 1-Moral Inquiry. Edited by William Schweiker, Maria Antonaccio, Elizabeth Bucar, and David Clairmont. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.
M棗紳莽喧梗娶莽, Masala, and Materiality: Close Encounters with Hindi Horror Movie Ephemera. In Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence, and Cinematic Fears in India. Edited by Ellen Goldberg, Aditi Sen, and Brian Collins, 21-43. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2021.
Vampire Man Varma: The Untold Story of the Hindu Mystic Who Decolonized Dracula. In Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence, and Cinematic Fears in India. Edited by Ellen Goldberg, Aditi Sen, and Brian Collins, 44-65. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
The Other Rma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraurma. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020.
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast About Austrian Polymath Robert Eisler. Podcast. June 2020. New Books Network.
The Magic of the Combinatory Mind: The Forgotten Life of 20th Century Austrian Polymath Robert Eisler. London: Palgrave Pivot, 2020.
Un pezzo troppo quadrato: la vita e lopera di Robert Eisler [A Very Square Peg: The Life and Work of Robert Eisler]. In Uomo diventa lupo: uninterpretazione antropologica di sadism, masochismo e licantropia [Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy] by Robert Eisler, 323-391. Translated by Raul Montanari. Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2019.
With Kristen Tobey. . Religious Studies Review Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jun. 2018), 173-182.
By Post or by Ghost: Ruminations on Visions and Epistolary Archives. Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 107, No. 3 (Summer 2017), 393-404.
The Eastern Revolution: From the Vedas to Buddhism, Jainism, and the Upanishads. In The Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion. Edited by James Alison and Wolfgang Palaver, 111-117. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.
Burning Desires, Burning Corpses: Girardian Reflections on Fire in Hinduism and Buddhism. In Ren矇 Girard and World Religions. Edited by Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 303-317. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2017.
The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014.