Associate Professor Adam Bowles
Associate Professor in Asian Religions, Deputy Head of School, Director of Research
+61 7 336 56324
Room E330, Forgan Smith Building (1)
| Featured projects | Duration |
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Cosmology, the earth and politicised territory in the Mahābhārata Summer Research Scholarship |
2015–2016 |
Publications
Books
Copland, Ian, Mabbett, Ian, Roy, Asim, Brittlebank, Kate and Bowles, Adam (2012). A history of state and religion in India. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203126943
Bowles, Adam (2008). Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume Two: Cantos 55-96. New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation.
Bowles, Adam (2007). Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
Bowles, Adam (2006). Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume One: Cantos 1-54. New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation.
Book Chapters
Bowles, Adam (2023). Āstīka, black magic and apotropaic ritual: peacemaking brahmins and the snake sacrifice in the Mahābhārata’s Ādiparvan. Visions and revisions in Sanskrit narrative: studies in the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas. (pp. 37-64) edited by Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/vrsn.2023.02
Bowles, Adam (2019). The Gṛhastha in the Mahābhārata. Gṛhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture. (pp. 173-203) edited by Patrick Olivelle. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
Bowles, Adam (2018). The dasyu in the Mahābhārata. The Churning of the Epics and Purāṇas: Proceedings of the Epics and Purāṇas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. (pp. 155-172) edited by Simon Brodbeck, Adam Bowles and Alf Hiltebeitel. New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors.
Bowles, Adam (2018). Law during emergencies: āpaddharma. Hindu law: a new history of Dharmaśāstra. (pp. 245-256) edited by Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198702603.003.0020
Bowles, Adam (2017). The Mahābhārata and dharma. Hinduism in India: The Early Period. (pp. 60-84) edited by Bailey, Greg. Delhi: Sage.
Bowles, Adam (2016). Reflections on the upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata. (pp. 320-358) edited by Adluri, Vishwa and Bagchee, Joydeep. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004271494_012
Bowles, Adam (2009). Framing bhisma's royal instructions: The Mahabharata and the problem of its ‘design’. Parallels and comparisons : proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, September 2005. (pp. 121-135) edited by Petteri Koskikallio. Croatia: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Journal Articles
Bowles, Adam (2024). Pain and suffering: Two thinkers in conversation. Australian Book Review (463).
Bowles, Adam (2022). On the growth and composition of the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas: relationship to Kāvya: social and economic context. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 117 (1), 66-70. doi: 10.1515/olzg-2022-0025
Bowles, Adam (2015). Dharma and ‘custom’: semantic persistence, semantic change and the anxieties of the principled few. Religions of South Asia, 9 (2), 137-163. doi: 10.1558/rosa.v9i2.31072
Bowles, Adam (2012). Historical traditions in Hindu texts. Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399318-0054
Bowles, Adam (2010). Governance and religious conflict in the eighteenth century: Religion and the civil discourse of separateness in the Maratha polity. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 33 (1), 61-74. doi: 10.1080/00856401003592479
Bowles, Adam (2010). The failure of dharma. Seminar (New Delhi): the monthly symposium (608), 26-31.
Newspaper Article
Bowles, Adam (2023, 08 11). “The destroyer of worlds”: Oppenheimer, death, and the Bhagavad-Gītā ABC Religion and Ethics
Creative Works
Bowles, Adam (2024). The Bains family. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.
Bowles, Adam (General Editor/Curator), Ginn, Geoff (General Editor/Curator), White, Jessica (Executive Editor/Curator), Almond, Philip (Consulting Editor/Curator) and Spearritt, Peter (Consulting Editor/Curator) (2024). Queensland atlas of religion. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.
Bowles, Adam (2024). Nicholai von Tonslamann. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.
Ginn, Geoff and Bowles, Adam (2024). The saints of Silkwood. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.
Bowles, Adam (2024). Venerable Rinchen. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland.