Prof. Thomas Hopkins – Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

Professor Thomas Hopkins

Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, USA

Biography

Professor Thomas Hopkins, is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, USA.

Research Areas

Indian religious life ranging from the Indus Civilisation to modern Bengal Vaishnavism.

Professor Thomas Hopkins is especially interested in the Vaishnava devotional tradition. His first meeting with A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami in New York in 1966, focused his attention on the newly emerging ISKCON movement and started a long-term study of ISKCON’s history and theology.

Selected Publications

The Hindu Religious Tradition. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth, 1975. Print. Religious Life of Man Ser.
“The rediscovery of the ‘Bhagavadgītā’ in modern India.” Journal of South Asian Literature 23.2 (1988): 58-72.
The Vaishnava Bhakti Movement in the ‘Bhagavata Purana’: A study of the characteristics of the Vaishnava Devotional Movement at the time of the ‘Bhagavata Purana,’ based on evidence drawn from the text of this work (1962): ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.