The South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship, 2012
The Faculty of Religious Studies is pleased to welcome Prof. Joanne Punzo Waghorne (Syracuse) as this years featured speaker for the South Asian Distinguished Lectureship.听 Prof. Waghorne's presentation is titled, "Gods in the High-Rise: Hindu Gurus Above It All", and will be offered at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 9, 2012.
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Prof. Joanne Waghorne works in contemporary theoretical directions in the study of religion, especially issues of changing religious organizations, practices, and self-understanding in the present era of mass communication, urbanization, globalization and transnational migration. World Systems analysis, concepts of the public sphere, public culture and visual studies inform her interdisciplinary approach which she works to integrate with her roots in History of Religions and phenomenology. Her concerns include revisioning World Religions/Comparative Religion in a post-colonial/post-modern era. Her publications contextualize these issues in contemporary urban India and in the Hindu diaspora. Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, and the American Institute of Indian Studies have supported her fieldwork in India.
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The South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship was established in 2009 to complement the strong undergraduate and graduate programs on South Asia in the Faculty of Religious Studies at 9I制作厂免费, and to encourage public understanding of South Asian religions. It has been made possible through the generosity of Professor Robert Stevenson, Professor of Comparative Religion at 9I制作厂免费 from 1966 to 1991.
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