Wendy Doniger ( O ' Flaherty ) ( born November 20, 1940 ) is an American Indologist and Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought.

Wendy Doniger, Eliade's colleague from 1978 until his death, notes that " Eliade argued boldly for universals where he might more safely have argued for widely prevalent patterns ".

However, although Doniger agrees that Eliade made over-generalizations, she notes that his willingness to " argue boldly for universals " allowed him to see patterns " that spanned the entire globe and the whole of human history ".

An endowed chair in the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School was named after Eliade in recognition of his wide contribution to the research on this subject ; the current ( and first incumbent ) holder of this chair is Wendy Doniger.

In March 2010, Hindu American Foundation co-founder and urologist Aseem Shukla debated elements of the book The Hindus: An Alternative History with Doniger on a Washington Post-sponsored blog on faith and religion, and accused her of sexualising and exoticising some of the holiest passages in the Hindu scriptures.

An English translation by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst and senior fellow at Center for Study of World Religions at Harvard University, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.

* Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions: An A-Z Guide to the World's Religions, by Wendy Doniger, M. Webster ( Merriam-Webster, 1999 ISBN 0-87779-044-2, ISBN 978-0-87779-044-0 ): Patriarch

In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that Burton " managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in English in 1883, nasty bits and all ".

Even Wendy Doniger, Eliade's successor at the University of Chicago, claims ( in an introduction to Eliade's own Shamanism ) that the eternal return does not apply to all myths and rituals, although it may apply to many of them.

Christian Lee Novetzke, associate professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Washington, summarizes this controversy as follows: " Wendy Doniger, a premier scholar of Indian religious thought and history expressed through Sanskritic sources, has faced regular criticism from those who consider her work to be disrespectful of Hinduism in general.

* Schilling, R., in Bonnefoy, Y., and Doniger, W. ( Editors ), Roman and European Mythologies, ( English translation ), University of Chicago Press, 1991. pp. 146.

A restructured translation of Yves Bonnefoy's Dictionnaire des Mythologies, prepared under the direction of Wendy Doniger ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wendy Doniger O ' Flaherty, Carmel Berkson, and George Michell ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983 ).

Photographs by Stella Snead ; text by Wendy Doniger ( pp. 3 – 23 ) and George Michell ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989 ).

* Doniger, Wendy, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India ( Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, 1996-1997: School of Oriental and African Studies University of London ).

Wendy Doniger, who is on the editorial board of Britannica, has been criticised for her negative portrayal of Hinduism.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Wendy Doniger noted that Eliade's theory of the eternal return " has become a truism in the study of religions ".

Researchers Chris Hughes, Kate Erickson, André Marek and David Stern fly to ITC and meet Robert Doniger, its founder, who tells them Johnston has used their quantum technology to travel to Dordogne in the year 1357, but has not returned as expected.

Since she began writing in the 1960s, Doniger has gained the reputation of being " one of America's major scholars in the humanities ".

Martha C. Nussbaum, concurring with Novetzke, adds that while the agenda of those in the American Hindu community who criticize Doniger appears similar to that of the Hindu right-wing in India, it is not quite the same since it has " no overt connection to national identity ", and that it has created feelings of guilt among American scholars, given the prevailing ethos of ethnic respect, that they might have offended people from another culture.

While Doniger has agreed that Indians have ample grounds to reject postcolonial domination, she claims that her works are only a single perspective which does not subordinate Indian self-identity.

Doniger replied that her book has sold well in India and asked her critics to show specifically where her interpretations of texts were wrong.

Doniger has written 16 books, translated ( primarily from Sanskrit to English ) with commentary 9 other volumes, has contributed to many edited texts and has written hundreds of articles in journals, magazines and newspapers.

Wendy Doniger, based on her study of indologists, assigns approximate dates to the various Puranas.

Current faculty include Religion scholar Wendy Doniger, theologian David Tracy, sociologist Hans Joas, literary theorist Thomas Pavel, theorist of German literature David Wellbery, classicist James M. Redfield, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, medieval historian David Nirenberg, philosopher Robert B. Pippin, Nobel Laureate economist Robert Fogel, classicist Laura M. Slatkin, historian of science Lorraine Daston, physician and philosopher Leon Kass ( former chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics ), political theorist Nathan Tarcov, and poet Adam Zagajewski.

Beginning in the early 2000s, a disagreement arose within the Hindu community over whether Doniger accurately described their traditions.

Doniger was born in New York City to immigrant non-observant Jewish parents, and raised in Great Neck NY, where her father, Lester L Doniger ( 1909 – 1971 ), ran a publishing business.

* Doniger, Wendy.

Laurie Patton and Wendy Doniger.

Doniger contributed the Sanskrit expertise while Kakar provided a psychoanalytic interpretation of the text.

The movie was adapted by Benjamin Doniger, Luis A. Maisonet and René Marqués from a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz.

It was directed by Doniger.

* Brian K. Smith ; Wendy Doniger, Sacrifice and Substitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification, Numen, Vol.

* Translated by Wendy Doniger, Gerald Honigsblum.

Wasson and his co-author, Wendy Doniger O ' Flaherty, drew parallels between Vedic descriptions and reports of Siberian uses of the fly-agaric in shamanic ritual.

* Wedemeyer, Christian ; Doniger, Wendy.

* Anonymous ( author ), Doniger O ' Flaherty, Wendy ( translator ), The Rig Veda: An Anthology.

ITC president Robert Doniger ( David Thewlis ) and vice-president Steven Kramer ( Matt Craven ) explain a teleportation device transports via wormhole to Castlegard in 1357-time travel.

He currently works at Texas A & M University, United States, as a Distinguished Professor where he holds the College of Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Science.

Since 1955, for nearly 60 years, Menahem Pressler has taught on the piano faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Music as the Charles Webb Chair.

Elegant holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania ( AB, Phi Beta Kappa ); and Columbia University ( MA, Far Eastern studies, MS journalism, Distinguished Alumnus Award ), as well as a diploma of proficiency in Chinese from Yale University.

Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.

He currently holds the position of Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center and teaches both administrative law and labor law.

Goldstein is a Regental Professor of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, holds the Julie and Louis A. Beecherl Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, and the Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine.

Despite his retirement, he continues to lecture extensively, and holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Wayne State.

He holds the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public service with silver palm.

In 1984, Dr. Rowley was made the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, a position she still holds, as well as serving as the interim deputy dean for science since 2001.

He holds eleven honorary degrees and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them: the Presidential Citizen's Medal, the Washingtonian of the Year Award, the James L. Fisher Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ), the Larry Stewart Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Association for Community Leadership.

She holds honorary doctorate degrees from Royal Roads University and Royal Roads Military College and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Queen's University.

He currently holds the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professorship in Philosophy.

( Monty ) Moncrief Distinguished Chair in Cholesterol and Arteriosclerosis Research ; is a Regental Professor of the University of Texas ; holds the Paul J. Thomas Chair in Medicine ; and is a member of the Board of Scientific Directors at The Scripps Research Institute.

Robert Sommer is an internationally known Environmental Psychologist and currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.

Nassi holds several patents and a Certificate for Distinguished Service from the Department of Defense for his work on the design of the Ada programming language.

He holds the position of Distinguished University Professor and has faculty appointments in the department of political science and in the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.

President Powers also serves as University Distinguished Teaching Professor and holds the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the School of Law.

He an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science and of King's College London, holds six honorary doctorates, and the Distinguished Graduate award of the University of Kansas, USA.

He holds the title of “ Distinguished University Professor ” ( the highest honor awarded to faculty at McMaster University ) as well as the Dofasco Chair in Process Automation and Information Technology at McMaster University.

He holds the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Distinguished Chair at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.