Jonathan Peterson (PhD, University of Toronto) is a scholar of religion in South Asia, with a focus on intellectual and devotional life in Persianate India. His current monograph in progress draws on an unstudied archive of inter-sectarian polemics to chart a history of Hindu difference on the eve of colonialism. His second project, building on his knowledge of Sanskrit, Persian, and Marathi, examines how Sanskrit poets used Eros (śṛṅgāra rasa) to negotiate religious boundaries in Sultanate Deccan. Jonathan’s articles have appeared in the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Medieval Globe, and elsewhere. He is also involved in several collaborative research projects: an ambitious intellectual history of Vedanta, a global comparative study of blasphemy, and a longue durée history of ‘difference’ (bheda) in Sanskrit philosophy. Jonathan is currently a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
You can reach him at: jpetersn@stanford.edu
