(CANCELLED) Vedanta Endowment Lecture: Hindu-Jewish Encounters: Contemporary Perspectives
A talk by Dr. Barbara Holdrege (PhD) of the University of California, Santa Barbara
This event has been cancelled.
Date: Thursday, June 22
Time: 7:30–9 pm
Location: Edwards School of Business Room 3, 25 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
Refreshments will follow the lecture
Evening parking available in Lot G across from Edwards School of Business
About this event
Barbara A. Holdrege is a professor of religious studies and chair of the South Asian Studies Committee at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison: Embodied CommunitiesandModels of Religious Tradition; Bhakti and Embodiment: Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti; Refiguring the Body: Embodiment in South Asian Religions; Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture; Ritual and Power; and a forthcoming monograph, The Body and the Self: Hindu Contributions to Theories of Embodiment.
This event is presented by the University of Saskatchewan and the Hindu Society of Saskatchewan as part of the Vedanta Endowment Lecture Series.
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