On March 15, 2011, social anthropologist Lindsay Hale spoke to Elon students about his research on the Umbanda religion in Rio de Janeiro.
Hale has been researching Umbanda and other Afro-Brazilian religions since 1986. He earned his PhD in 1994 at the University of Texas, Austin, and has taught anthropology and Latin American study courses there since 1995.
Flueckiger to Speak on Religious Festival in South India - April 15, 2010Joyce Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University, author and editor of numerous books on Indian culture and religion, and recipient of the Emory Williams Teaching Award.
Flueckiger grew up in India until the age of eighteen, and earned her Ph.D. in South Asian Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in performance studies and anthropology of religion, with a particular interest in gender. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in India, working with both Hindu and Muslim popular traditions.
Her latest book is titled In Amma's Healing Room: Gender & Vernacular Islam in South India (2006). She is also the author of Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (1996), and is co-editor of and contributor to Oral Epics in India (1989) and Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia (1991).
On Thursday, April 15, 2010, she spoke about her research on the goddess tradition and festival of Gangamma (one of seven village-goddess sisters), based on fieldwork conducted in Tirupati, South India.
Featured Work
Amy Allocco, assistant professor of religious studies, spent the past summer in South India completing the final stint of ethnographic fieldwork for her book project on contemporary Hindu snake worship traditions. This summer’s work served as follow-up to the dissertation research on the expansion and increasing popularity of snake goddess worship by Hindu women that she carried out there during several periods between 2004 and 2008, including 14 months of continuous research from 2006-2007.
Events
Charles Price, "Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice: Lessons from Welfare Reform"
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 29th
“Dancing Across Religions: Embodied Yearnings for the Divine”
Black Box Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 13
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