[Soasiastudents] Reminder: Today, Anne Feldhaus

[Keith Snodgrass]

*Mahanubhav Pilgrimage Traditions and the Religious Archaeology of
Maharashtra*

*Thursday May 6, 2010*
*3:30 pm*
*Smith Hall 107*, UW Campus

*Anne Feldhaus, Foundation Professor of Religion, School of History,
Philosophy, Religious Studies, Arizona State University*

*Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Luce Foundation Grant and the South
Asia Center, UW*

**

The holy places of the Mahanubhavs are by no means exempt from the processes
that erase, change, or blur the physical remains of the past. The
Mahanubhavs’ precise focus on particular places, however, and on the
recollecting of particular things that were said or done in those places,
gives the Mahanubhavs’ pilgrimage traditions a concreteness that seems to me
to make the 13th century come alive. Focusing on the Old-Marathi text
Sthanpothi and on statements made by contemporary Mahanubhav monks and lay
people, I will explain those pilgrimage traditions and the literature
associated with them, and show some ways they can help us to learn about
what Maharashtra was like in the 13th century.
Part of the *Interrogating Traditions: the Everyday and the Ethical in South
Asia* Lecture Series

-- 
Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center, Box 353650
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
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