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Critical Commensality as a Window into the Bhakti-Caste Question
May 14, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
“Critical Commensality as a Window into the Bhakti-Caste Question.”
Jon Keune is an Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Michigan State University. His work focuses on religion, social history, and memory, especially the notion of equality. His recent monograph Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India is being released by Oxford University Press at the end of April. He is working on translating the allegorical drama-poems (bharuds) of the 16th-century saint-poet Eknath, who drew on everyday life and marginalized social characters to convey his teachings. Beyond bhakti, Keune also studies transnational connections among Buddhists in India, Taiwan, and Japan, and he has interests in the role of comparison for studying religion, especially between the Indian and Chinese worlds.
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