P. Pratap Kumar

Experience

• 2012–2013
  Visiting Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, USA
• 1994–2012
  Professor of Hinduism and Comparative Religions, University of KwaZulu-Natal
• 2008–2009
  Visiting Professor , Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA
• 2004–2005
  Academic Director , Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford, UK
• 1991–1993
  Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of Natal, PMB
• 1993–1993
  Senior lecturer, University of Cape Town
• 1990–1991
  Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, USA

Education

• 1991 
  University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, PhD

Publications

• 2015
  Indian Diaspora: Socio-cultural and Religious Worlds. Edited by P. Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2015. [ISBN: 978-90-04-28798-3 (hard cover); 978-90-04-28806-5 (e-book)., 1
• 2013
  Hinduism and The Diaspora: A South African Narrative, Jaipur, New Delhi, India: Rawat Publishers, 2013. [Pages 248, ISBN # 978-81-316-0527-1]. , 1
• 2013
  Contemporary Hinduism. Edited by P. Pratap Kumar. Durham, UK: Acumen, 2013. [ISBN 978-1-84465-689-9]. pp 293+, 1
• 2013
  Classical and Contemporary Issues in Indian Philosophy and Religion, (Festschrift in honour of Prof. T.S. Rukmani) Edited by P. Pratap Kumar and Jonathan Duquette, New Delhi: DK Print Publishers, 2013. Pages xviii +462 [ISBN # 9788124606520], 1
• 2005
  Study of Religion in Southern Africa: Essays in Honour of G.C. Oosthuizen, edited by Johannes A. Smit and P. Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2005. (pp. 288 +). [900414384X], 1
• 2004
  Methods and Theories in the Study of Religions: Perspectives from the Study of Hinduism and other Indian Religions. Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan Publications, 2004. , 1
• 2004
  South Asians in the Diaspora: Their Histories and Traditions, edited by Knut Jacobsen and P. Pratap Kumar. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004. (420pp). [9789004124882], 1
• 2000
  The Goddess Lakshmi in South Indian Vaishnavism. Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA USA, 1997, Oxford University Press, 2000. [ISBN: 788501984] 186pp, 1
• 2000
  Hindus in South Africa: Their Traditions and Beliefs, Durban: University of Durban-Westville, 2000, 1

Grants and Contracts

• 2018

  Role:

  Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics

  Funding Source:

  National Research Foundation

• 2015
  KIC

  Role:

  1

  Funding Source:

  National Research Foundation of South Africa

Professional Memberships

• President of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (2006-2007)
• Current Member of the American Academy of Religion
• Director of the International Association for the History of Religions Congress, August 5-12, 2000
• Chairperson of the International Committee for the Regional Conference of the IAHR in India. 2003-2004
• Editor of Numen Book Series of the IAHR (2004-2007)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Numen : International Review for the History of Religions 2004-2012
• Executive Member and Deputy Treasurer of the International Association for the History of Religions (2004-2007)
• Board Member of the International Association for Sociology of Religion (International Sociology Association) 2009-2013