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DESCRIPTION:David Shulman is regarded as one of the world’s foremost author
 ities on the languages and literatures of India. He received his Ph.D. in 
 1976 at the School of Oriental and African Studies\, London\, in Tamil lit
 erature. His research embraces many fields\, including the history of reli
 gion in South India\, Indian poetics\, Tamil Islam\, Dravidian linguistics
 \, and Karnatak music. He is also a published poet in Hebrew\, a literary 
 critic\, a cultural anthropologist\, and a peace activist. He was formerly
  Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at The Hebrew Univer
 sity\, Jerusalem\, and professor in the Department of Indian\, Iranian and
  Armenian Studies\, and now holds an appointment as Renee Lang Professor o
 f Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has authore
 d or co-authored more than 20 books on various subjects ranging from templ
 e myths and temple poems to essays that cover a wide spectrum of the cultu
 ral history of South India. Among these are the monographs Tamil Temple My
 ths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition (Pr
 inceton\, 1980)\; The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry (
 Princeton\, 1985)\; The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion (
 Chicago\, 1993)\; and More than Real: A History of the Imagination in Sout
 h India (Harvard\, 2012)\; and the co-authored works\, with Velcheru Naray
 ana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam Symbols of Substance (Oxford\, 1993)\; and
  Textures of Time: Writing History in South India (2002).\n\nBilingual in 
 Hebrew and English\, he works in Sanskrit\, Hindi\, Tamil\, Telugu\, and M
 alayalam and reads Greek\, Russian\, French\, German\, Persian\, and Arabi
 c. He has a passion for classical Karnatak (South Indian) music\, though h
 e has also studied Hindustani (North Indian) Dhrupad singing.\n
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LOCATION:Birks Heritage Chapel\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 2A7\, 3520 rue University
SUMMARY:Birks Lecture Series: The Making of a Grisly Goddess
URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/birks-lecture-ser
 ies-making-grisly-goddess-254878
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