Prof. Dr. Will Sweetman

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsReligious Studies,Asian Studies
KeywordsHinduismus, Kolonialismus, Orientalismus

Current contact address

CountryNew Zealand
CityDunedin
InstitutionUniversity of Otago
InstituteSchool of Social Scieces
Homepagehttps://www.otago.ac.nz/religion/our-people/will-sweetman

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Helmut ObstSeminar für Ökumenik und Religionswissenschaft, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Prof. Dr. Markus FriedrichFachbereich Geschichte, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Michael BergunderTheologische Fakultät, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Hans HarderSüdasien-Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2003

Programme(s)

2002Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2022Sweetman, Will: The Accommodation of Caste in the Tranquebar Mission (1706–1746). In: Friedrich, Markus and Zaunstöck, Holger, Jesuit and Pietist Missions in the Eighteenth Century: Cross-Confessional Perspectives. Harrassowitz, 2022. 175–93
2021Will Sweetman: Orientalists and Missionaries. In: Tracy Coleman, Oxford Bibliographies: Hinduism. Oxford University Press, 2021.
2019Will Sweetman: Reading Jesuit Readings of Hinduism. In: Robert A Maryks, Jesuit Historiography. Brill, 2019.
2019Will Sweetman, Ines Zupanov: Rival Mission, Rival Science? Jesuits and Pietists in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century South India. In: Comparative Studies in Society and History, 61, 2019, 624-653
2019Sweetman, Will: Sisyphus and I: Or, Theologians I Have Known in Three Decades as Religionswissenschaftler. In: Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 32, 2019, 145-65
2019Will Sweetman: The Absent Vedas. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 139, 2019, 781-803
2016Will Sweetman, Aditya Malik: Hinduism in India: Modern and Contemporary Movements. Sage, 2016
2016Will Sweetman: The Dravidian Idea in Missionary Accounts of South Indian Religion. In: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Aloka Parasher Sen Religion and Modernity in India. Oxford University Press, 2016. 67-83
2015Will Sweetman: Empire and Mission: Protestant Beginnings in India and the 'Pious Clause'. In: Social Sciences and Missions, 2015, 1-21
2014Will Sweetman: Hinduism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. Routledge, 2014
2014Will Sweetman: Retracing Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Path. In: Esther Fihl, A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling across Cultural Borders in South India. Orient BlackSwan, 2014. 304-321
2014Will Sweetman: The Cessation of the Oracles: Authenticity and Authority in Jesuit Reports of Possession in South India. In: Anand Amaladass, Iñes G. Županov, Intercultural Encounter and the Jesuit Mission in South Asia. Asian Trading Corporation, 2014. 156-176
2012Will Sweetman, R. Ilakkuvan: Bibliotheca Malabarica: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Tamil Library. Institut Français de Pondichéry/École française d'Extrême Orient, 2012
2011Eric Repphun, Deane Galbraith, Will Sweetman, James Harding: Beyond Christianity, the Bible, and the Text: Urgent Tasks and New Orientations for Reception History. In: Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, 2011, 1-11
2011Will Sweetman: Südasiatische Religionen. In: Friedrich Jaeger Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Metzler, 2011. 65-75
2009Ute Hüsken Will Sweetman: Visnu's Children. Prenatal life-cycle rituals in South India. Harrassowitz, 2009
2008Will Sweetman: Hinduism--History of Scholarship. In: Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael York, Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Routledge, 2008. 329-339
2007Will Sweetman: Colonialism all the way down? Religion and the secular in early modern writing on south India. In: Timothy Fitzgerald, Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations. Equinox, 2007. 117-134
2006Will Sweetman: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, the Tranquebar mission, and 'the Roman horror'. In: Andreas Gross, Y. Vincent Kumaradoss, Heike Liebau, Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India. Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle, 2006. 797-811
2006Will Sweetman: Heathenism, idolatry and rational monotheism among the Hindus: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Akkiyanam (1713) and other works addressed to Tamil Hindus. In: Andreas Gross, Y. Vincent Kumaradoss, Heike Liebau, Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India. Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle, 2006. 1249-1275
2005Will Sweetman: Arier. In: Friedrich Jaeger, Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. Metzler, 2005. 636-637
2004Will Sweetman: The prehistory of Orientalism: colonialism and the textual basis for Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg¿s account of Hinduism. In: New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 2004, 12-38
2003Will Sweetman: 'Hinduism' and the history of 'religion': Protestant presuppositions in the critique of the concept of Hinduism.. In: Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2003, 329-353
2003Will Sweetman: Mapping Hinduism: 'Hinduism' and the study of Indian Religions, 1600-1776. . Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, 2003