Birth Name:

Wendy Doniger

Female

Birth Date:

Wed, Nov 20, 1940

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New York, New York, United States

Age:

83

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

28°

Sco

14'

About Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (born November 20, 1940) is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include, 'The Hindus: an alternative history'; Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology, 108 Hymns Translated from the Sanskrit. She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has taught there since 1978. She served as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1998.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Doniger's homepage at the University of Chicago Divinity School website

• Wendy Doniger from Stanford University Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Wendy Doniger: Sun 28 Scorpio, Moon 3 Leo, Mercury 12 Scorpio, Venus 22 Libra, Mars 29 Libra, Jupiter 8 Taurus, Saturn 9 Taurus, Uranus 23 Taurus, Neptune 27 Virgo, Pluto 4 Leo, Sun Sextile Neptune, Mercury Opposition Jupiter, Sun Opposition Uranus, Mercury Opposition Saturn, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Mercury Semi Square Neptune, Venus Quincunx Uranus, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Conjunct Saturn, Jupiter Square Pluto, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Trine Neptune

Categories related to Wendy Doniger: Living people, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners, Alumni of the University of Oxford, Radcliffe College alumni, November 20 births, American women historians, Writers from New York City, University of Chicago faculty, 1940 births, 20th-century American women, Members of the American Philosophical Society, 21st-century American women, American historians of religion, Sanskrit–English translators, American Indologists, Hindu studies scholars, 21st-century American Jews, 20th-century American Jews, Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies, Presidents of the American Academy of Religion, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize winners, University of Chicago Divinity School, Hindutva harassment of scholars

Photo attribution: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), "2015 A Life of Learning by Wendy Doniger. The Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture" (frame grab, 0:55)