(CANCELLED) Vedanta Endowment Lecture: Engaging Krishna’s Divine Forms
A talk by Dr. Barbara Holdrege (PhD) of the University of California, Santa Barbara
This event has been cancelled.
Date: Saturday, June 24
Time: 4–5:30 pm
Location: Gita Bhavan, Shri Lakshmi Narayan Temple, 7 La Ronge Road, Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
Refreshments will follow the lecture
Parking available on the side of the temple and across the temple on the street
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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