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Hindu Views on God and World: Sankara, Sridhara Svamin, and Jiva Gosvamin.

Professor Jonathan Edelmann will give a public lecture at the University of Florida’s Undergraduate Philosophy Society in the Department of Philosophy on October 30, 2018, Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. The lecture will be held in the Department of Philosophy’s Library in Griffin-Floyd Hall. This includes a lecture, questions and answers, and dinner. The title of his […]

The Subjunctive Mood: Exploring Fictive Sufi Discourse in Early Modern Bengal

The Center for the study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Tony Stewart, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. Professor Stewart’s talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Islamic Studies. The title of his […]

Graduate Program Expanded: Global Islam, Buddhist & Hindu Traditions Added

In the fall of 2017 the department will inaugurate a newly revised and expanded graduate program. While always intended to prepare students for careers both in and outside academia, our program now is more explicitly designed to prepare students not only for academia but also for emerging careers in public service, non-governmental organizations, and various […]

Pedagogical Strategies in Jīva Gosvāmin’s Sanskrit Grammar, Harināmāmṛta Vyākaraṇa

This presentation will seek to question common assumptions about the socio-linguistics of religion in South Asia, which correlate Sanskrit with brāhmaṇical elit Harināmāmṛta, Jīva Gosvāmin’s (1523-1608) Sanskrit grammar, composed so as to make Sanskrit as accessible as possible. Rebecca Manring recently asked, “Does Kṛṣṇa Really Need His Own Grammar?”, answering that Jīva’s grammar is “cumbersome” even in comparison with Pāṇini’s, and suggests that this was […]

Pedagogical Strategies in Jīva Gosvāmin’s Sanskrit Grammar, Harināmāmṛta Vyākaraṇa

This presentation will seek to question common assumptions about the socio-linguistics of religion in South Asia, which correlate Sanskrit with brāhmaṇical elit Harināmāmṛta, Jīva Gosvāmin’s (1523-1608) Sanskrit grammar, composed so as to make Sanskrit as accessible as possible. Rebecca Manring recently asked, “Does Kṛṣṇa Really Need His Own Grammar?”, answering that Jīva’s grammar is “cumbersome” even in comparison with Pāṇini’s, and suggests that this was […]