Talk:Shaman Hatley

By Rutvi Dattani

Shaman Hatley is Chair, Department of Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Asian Studies & Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts at University of Massachusetts Boston as of December 2022. According to his university profile, his research focuses on Asian religions, Hinduism, Sanskrit, tantric studies, Śaivism, yoga, Hindu goddess traditions, medieval India.

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva and the Indian Government.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications Related to Hinduism and India

1. Hatley, Shaman. Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson. 2020.
2. Hatley, Shaman. The Brahmayāmalatantra and Early Śaiva Cult of Yoginīs. 2007.
3. Hatley, Shaman. "Yoginīs." Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, edited by Tracy Coleman, Oxford University Press, 2020, doi:10.1093/OBO/9780195399318-0233.
4. Hatley, Shaman. "The Seven Mothers (Sapta Mātaraḥ): Origin Tales from the Old Skandapurāṇa and Devīpurāṇa." In A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Hindu Tales of the Divine Feminine from India and Beyond, edited by Michael Slouber, University of California Press, 2020.
5. Hatley, Shaman. "The Lotus Garland (padmamālā) and Cord of Power (śaktitantu): The Brahmayāmala’s Integration of Inner and Outer Ritual." 2020.
6. Hatley, Shaman. "Sisters and Consorts, Adepts and Goddesses: Representations of Women in the Brahmayāmala." 2019.
7. Hatley, Shaman. "Converting the Ḍākinī: Goddess Cults and Tantras of the Yoginīs between Buddhism and Śaivism." 2016.
8. Hatley, Shaman. "Erotic Asceticism: The Razor’s Edge Observance (asidhārāvrata) and the Early History of Tantric Coital Ritual." 2016.
9. Hatley, Shaman. "Śakti in Early Tantric Śaivism: Historical Observations on Goddesses, Cosmology, and Ritual in the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā." 2015.
10. Hatley, Shaman. "Goddesses in Text and Stone: Temples of the Yoginīs in Light of Tantric and Purāṇic Literature." In Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, Object, edited by Benjamin Fleming and Richard Mann, Routledge, 2014.
11. Hatley, Shaman. "What is a Yoginī? Towards a Polythetic Definition." 2013.
12. Hatley, Shaman. "From Mātṛ to Yoginī: Continuity and Transformation in the South Asian Cults of the Mother Goddesses." 2012.
13. Hatley, Shaman. "Tantric Śaivism in Early Medieval India: Recent Research and Future Directions." 2012.
14. Hatley, Shaman. "Mapping the Esoteric Body in the Islamic Yoga of Bengal." 2007.