Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism / Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures Bd.37 (PDF)

of fiction and has co-edited an anthology of essays on fiction studies titled Why Fiction Matters: Reading and Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times (2017). His recent works include the following monographs: The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining (2020); The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devi as Corpse (2018); and Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality: The Red Shadow of the Mother (2017). His works have been reviewed and cited in reputed international journals by noted scholars, and two academic entries in the Oxford Bibliographies refer to and present a brief description of his book on Shaktism and Tantra as reference work to be consulted in this field. He has contributed chapters to several edited volumes and his research papers, book reviews and creative writing have been published in reputed journals in India, Australia and the USA. He has presented papers and/or chaired academic sessions in various international conferences in India, Cyprus and Nepal. He has delivered invited lectures in various institutions on diverse occasions. His documentary film on Women's Sanskritic Education in Varanasi, titled Daughters of Sarasvati, is available on YouTube. Recipient of a number of awards such as the prestigious Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award conferred by the International Business Council in 2016, the Bharat Vikas Award conferred by the Institute of Self-Reliance in 2019, the Yuva Rattan Award conferred by the NRI Welfare Society of India in 2020, Dr Mukhopadhyay is also an Associate Faculty at the Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia, Lalitpur, Nepal. Dr Mukhopadhyay has organized, with his colleagues, a number of academic programmes at institutions that he has served as a faculty member, including lectures by reputed scholars from India and abroad, conferences, workshop etc. His forthcoming works include an edited volume on the interface between literature and philosophy and an edited volume on the Goddess in South Asian cinema, as well as a monograph in the field of philosophy of religion. He has played the roles of reviewer, advisor and guest editor for various journals in India and abroad, including Sophia. Besides, he has reviewed book manuscripts for reputed publishers. He is a member of various academic committees in some reputed Indian universities. He was an invited resource person in the online live event "Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation", the third episode of the Inter/Sections podcast series on inter-religious dialogue, organized by the Institute for Communication and Religion within the College of Communication and the Arts, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA on 27th October 2021. He has been interviewed by Dr Raj Balkaran on his books on Indian goddess cultures, and these interviews are available on New Books Network, the consortium of author-interview podcast channels on academic books (Editor-in-Chief: Marshall Poe and co-editor: Leann Wilson).