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Timothy Lubin

Historian of religion and law of South and Southeast Asia, working with texts and inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Javanese, and Old Tamil to study the formation, spread, and transformation of ideas and institutions in the ancient and medieval periods.

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    • Department of Religion
    • Law, Justice & Society Program
    • Middle East and South Asia Studies
    • Sanskrit at WLU: An Overview
    • South Asia Lectures at W&L
    • The Culture & Society Colloquium at Washington and Lee University

Courses

Academic Year 2025–26

On sabbatical leave from teaching.

Spring 2027

REL 246 / ECON 246: Caste at the Intersection of Economy, Religion, and Law (with Prof. Shikha Silwal) – in Nepal

Courses taught in other years

LJS 101: Introduction to Law, Justice and Society
REL 103: Introduction to Asian Religion
REL 130: Religion and Conflict in Asia
REL 131: Buddhism
REL 132: Hinduism
REL 210: Approaches to the Study of Religion
REL 216: Sainthood in Four Traditions
REL 220 / LAW 620: Whose Law? Legal Pluralism, Conflict, and Justice
REL 222 / Law 655: Law and Religion
REL 225: Magic, Science, and Religion
REL 231: Body and Soul in India
REL 333: Meditation and Self-Knowledge
REL 335 / LAW 614: Hindu Law in Theory and Practice
REL 340: (Topics in Asian Religions) Banaras: Life and Death in a Holy City
REL 340: (Topics in Asian Religions) Religion and Conflict in South Asia
SKT 101: Elementary Sanskrit I >> Sanskrit at W&L: An Overview
SKT 102 Elementary Sanskrit II
SKT 201: Intermediate Sanskrit I
SKT 202: Intermediate Sanskrit II
SKT 301: Advanced Readings in Sanskrit >> 2013 staging of the Matta-vilāsa-prahasanam of Mahendra-Varman

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