Laurie PattonLaurie Patton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Early Indian Religions and Chair of Department of Religion at Emory University. She earned her BA from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is the author of many scholarlyarticles on Hinduism. Patton is editor of Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation*(SUNY, 1994). Read More Read Less