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Anne Monius is a historian of religion specializing in the religious traditions of
India. Her research interests lie in examining the practices and products of literary culture to reconstruct
the history of religions in South Asia. Her first book, Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and
Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India, examines the two extant Buddhist texts composed in Tamil;
her current research project, "Singing the Lives of Siva's Saints: History, Aesthetics, and Religious Identity in
Tamil-Speaking South India," considers the role of aesthetics and moral vision in the articulation of a distinctly
Hindu religious identity in twelfth-century South India. Both works point to a larger research focus on the ways in
which aesthetics and ethics define religious identity and community in South Asia, as well as to the creative and
productive encounters among competing sectarian religious communities. Future research projects will explore the
relationship of Hindu devotional and philosophical literature in Tamil to its Sanskritic forebears, as well as
consider the transmission of South Indian strands of Buddhism and Hinduism to Southeast Asia.
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