Rembert is the Librarian and Fellow at the OCHS and Research Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the Theology & Religion Faculty, University of Oxford. He is an editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies, published by Oxford University Press. Dr Rembert Lutjeharms holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Oriental Studies (Indology) from the University of Ghent, Belgium, 2003. He successfully completed his D.Phil. in Theology at the University of Oxford in 2010, focusing on the theology of the sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava poet and literary critic Kavikarṇapūra. 

Research Area/s:

Early intellectual history of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism, history of Vedānta, and Sanskrit devotional poetry and poetics.

Research Interests:

His research interests are Sanskrit poetry and poetics, early Caitanya Vaisnava history, and Sanskrit hermeneutics.

Selected Publications:

Books

• A Vaiṣṇava Poet in Early Modern Bengal : Kavikarṇapūra’s Splendour of Speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• (edited) Joseph T. O’Connell. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism in Bengal : Social Impact and Historical Implications. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

• “Encounters with the Inconceivable: Experience and Inclusivism in Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Theology”, in Pluralism and Plurality in Classical and Contemporary India, edited by Brian Black and James Madaio. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
• “Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism” in Many Vaiṣṇavisms: Histories Of The Worship Of Viṣṇu, edited by Archana Venkatesan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “The Perfection of All Beauty and Joy: A Gauḍīya Vedāntic theology of devotional love”, ISKCON Communications Journal 13, 2022, pp. 125-149.
• “Vaiṣṇava Practice”, in Hindu Practice, edited by Gavin Flood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 272-310.
• “Rūpa Gosvāmin”, Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2018.
• “’Why do we still sift the husk-like Upaniṣads?’ Revisiting Vedānta in early Caitanya Vaiṣṇava theology” in Texts and Traditions in Early Modern North India, edited by John Stratton Hawley, Anshu Malhotra & Tyler Williams. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 382-412.
• “All Vaiṣṇavas are Gurus: Narahari Sarakāra on Vaiṣṇavas, Gurus, and the Fate of the Gauḍīya Tradition,” Journal of Vaiṣṇava Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2017, pp. 151-184.
• “An ocean of emotion: Rasa and religious experience in early Caitanya Vaiṣṇava thought” in Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Philosophy: Tradition, Reason and Devotion, edited by Ravi M. Gupta. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014, pp. 175-230.
• “First faith: On the meaning and role of \textit{śraddhā} in Caitanya Vaiṣṇava thought”, ISKCON Studies Journal 2, 2014, pp. 71-110.
• “Rūpa Gosvāmī”. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol. IV. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 379-387.

Book Reviews

• Review of Heidi Pauwels’ Mobilising Krishna’s World: The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh (University of Washington Press, 2017), in Religions of South Asia, forthcoming.
• Review of Kiyokazu Okita’s Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia: The Rise of Devotionalism and the Politics of Genealogy (Oxford University Press, 2014), in Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1, May 2016, Pages 149–152.