Water, Art & Architecture in Indonesia
A lecture by Boreth Ly- Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Utah. In addition to the evening public lecture, Prof. Ly will be offering a graduate/faculty seminar along with additional lectures to undergraduate classes. Co-sponsored by CHiTra & the Harn Museum.
An Andal Evening: An Evening of Music, Classical Dance, and Discussion
A public lecture, music and dance based on the works of Andal, a ninth century female saint from south India. This presentation is part of the UF Religion, Literature and the Performing Arts series. The program will include: Dance based on Andal's poem "A Thousand Elephants..." (varanam ayiram) Musical renderings of Andal's Tiruppavai Brief demonstration …
Aesthetics and Goddesses Who do Not Migrate: What is Left Behind Shapes What is Here
A faculty and student seminar with Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University. Part of the TSGC workshop on Global Religions in Practice. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), the Transnational and Global Studies Center (TSGC), and the University of Florida International Center, in association with the Department of Religion, the Center …
Global Religions in Practice
With Professor Thomas A. Tweed (University of Texas, Austin) 10:30 a.m., 117 Anderson Hall Studying Religion in Motion in a Global Context Workshop 3:00 p.m., 219 Anderson Hall Toward an Ethic of Civic Engagement: Reflections on a Kinetic and Relational Theory of Religion Faculty & Student Seminar Thomas A. Tweed has graduate degrees from Harvard …
Speaking the Same Language: The Bengali Muslims and Hindus Who Venerate Bonbibi of the Sundarbans
Lecture by Professor Sufia M. Uddin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College. Muslims and Hindus who live in West Bengal and Bangladesh, on the edge of the Sundarbans, rely upon the bounty of this forest for their livelihood. Men venture into the forest to fish, collect wood, honey, and wax. With each trip into …
Hindu Theology as Churning the Ocean of Milk
A seminar for graduate students & faculty with Jonathan Edelmann (Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University). Jonathan Edelmann received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 2008. His research focuses on North Indian Hindu devotional traditions and the intersection of Hinduism and the natural sciences. He was a 2009-2011 Luce Summer Fellow with the American Academy of …
Expanding the Notion of ‘Theism:’ An Interreligious Theological Analysis of Yoga and Bhakti Conceptions
A seminar for graduate students & faculty with Graham Schweig (Professor, Christopher Newport University). Scholars of Indology in the earlier part of the twentieth century sought to understand conceptions and expressions of theism within Hindu traditions. For example, coming from Abrahamic backgrounds and perhaps even motivated by Christian missiological purposes, scholars' works, such as Carpenter's …