December 28, 2002 at 5pm
Venue: Sundar Mahal, Padmavathy Road, Jeypore Colony, Chennai
Vasudha Narayanan is a Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and the President of the American Academy of Religion (2001-2002). She was educated at the Universities of Madras and Bombay (in India) and at Harvard University. Her fields of interest are the Sri Vaishnava tradition, Hindu traditions in India and America, Hinduism and the environment, and gender issues.
She is the author and editor of 5 books, over 70 articles, chapters and encyclopedia entries. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from several organizations including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Smithsonian, the American Institute for Indian Studies, and the Social Science Research Council. Her book 'The Hindu Traditions in the United States: Temple Space, Domestic Space and Cyber Space,' is to be published by Columbia University Press in 2003. She is working on Hindu temples and Vaishnava traditions in Cambodia. |
Prakriti Foundation
presented "Hindu architecture in Cambodia", Talk by Dr. Vasudha Narayanan
