CONTRIBUTOR:

Herman Tull

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Lecturer

DEPARTMENT:

Religion

INSTITUTION:

Princeton University

BIOGRAPHY:

Herman Tull is an unaffiliated scholar residing in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Tull specializes in the study of Indian religions, with an emphasis on the interplay of myth and ritual as expressed in the Sanskrit textual tradition. He is the author of The Vedic Origins of Karma (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989), and is a frequent contributor to journals and collected works in the general area of the study of religion in South Asia. After receiving the Ph.D. degree from the Department of History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University, where he worked under the direction of Professor Wendy Doniger, Dr. Tull held faculty appointments at Rutgers University (Department of Religion), at Princeton University (Department of Religion and Department of Classics), and at Lafayette College (Department of Religious Studies).