Karline McLain
Assistant Professor of Religion
Bucknell University
12 Coleman Hall
Lewisburg, PA 17837
570-577-3520
kmclain@bucknell.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2005
M.A., University of Texas, 1999
B.A., University of Iowa, 1996
Courses:
RELI 115: Introduction to Asian Religions
RELI 201: Islam
RELI 202: Hinduism
RELI 203: Hinduism and Film
RELI 247: Epic India: Comics, Films, Texts
RELI 255: Mahatma Gandhi
RELI 330: Theories of Religion
FOUN 096-47: Media, Modernity, and Religion
FOUN 097-47: Comics and Religion
CAPS 427: Gandhi: Man, Myth, Legacy
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India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and
Other Heroes by Karline McLain ISBN-13: 978-0253220523 |
Ranakpur Jain Temple, Rajasthan, India.
Current Project:
Professor McLain's main area of teaching and research interest is religion and visual culture in modern India. Her book, India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, & Other Heroes (Indiana University Press, 2009), is a study of India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha. It won the Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Book Prize in the Indian Humanities by the American Institute of Indian Studies.