Faculty

Corinne Dempsey
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies Coordinator

Office: CCC 415
Phone: Phone:  (715) 346-2505
Email: cdempsey@uwsp.edu

Education:
1997 Ph.D., Religion, Syracuse University
1993 M.Phil., Syracuse University
1989 M.A., Systematic Theology, Graduate Theological Union, U.C. Berkeley
1983 B.A. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon





Courses:
Introduction to Asian Religions
Religions of India
Women and Goddesses in India
Studies in Religion: Oppression and Liberation
War and Peace in World Religions
Popular Catholicism
Islam








 

Scholarly Activities:

Books:

The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple. NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines, eds. Selva Raj and Corinne Dempsey. Albany, NY: State University or New York Press, 2002.

Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldviews in South India. NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Articles:

“Recent Studies in Indian Christianity,” (review article) Church History (forthcoming)

“Cross-Currents in Kerala Christianity: Status and Taboo in the Indigenization Process,” Vidyajyoti: Journal of Theological Reflection 69/6 (2005): 404-414.

“Double Take: Through the Eyes of Yakshis, Yakshas, and Yoginis,” Journal of American Academy of Religion 73/1 (2005): 3-7.

“Nailing Heads and Splitting Hairs: Conflict, Conversion, and the Bloodthirsty Yakshi in Kerala, South India,” Journal of American Academy of Religion 73/1 (2005): 111-132.

“Preface: Time for Some New Lines,” (with Selva Raj) in Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines. Ed. Selva Raj and Corinne Dempsey. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002: 1-7.

“Folk Religion: Kerala Christian,” and “Saints: Kerala Christian,” in South Asia Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Peter Claus and Margaret Mills. New York: Routledge, 2002.

“The Religioning of Anthropology: New Directions for the Ethnographer-Pilgrim,” Culture and Religion 1/2 (2000): 189-210.

“Religion and Representation in Recent Ethnographies,” Religious Studies Review 26/1 (2000): 38-42.

“Lessons in Miracles from Kerala, South India: Stories of Three ‘Christian’ Saints,” History of Religions 39/2 (1999): 150-176. Reprinted in co-edited volume, Popular Christianity in India.

“Rivalry, Reliance and Resemblance: Siblings as Metaphor for Hindu-Christian Relations in Kerala State,” Asian Folklore Studies 57/1 (1998): 51-71.

“St. George the Indigenous Foreigner,” Religion 28/2 (1998): 171-183.