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Tag Archives: India

Indian Summers: “For Europeans to Commit Murders is an Impossibility” Edition

November 20, 2015 Leave a Comment

This is our fourth in a series of discussions about the PBS Masterpiece series Indian Summers, airing Sunday nights at 9 pm EST on PBS. Sacred Matters’ managing editor Michael J. Altman and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, assistant professor of religion at the University of Vermont, will offer their reviews of the series as it airs in the United States. NOTE: THERE ARE SPOILERS. 

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Indian Summers: Inqilab Zindibad Edition

October 10, 2015 1 Comment

Michael J. Altman and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst This is our first in a series of discussions about the PBS Masterpiece series Indian Summers airing Sunday nights at 8 pm EST on PBS. Sacred Matter’s managing editor Michael J. Altman and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Vermont, will offer their reviews of the series as it airs in the United States. NOTE: THERE ARE SPOILERS 

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Daily Sacred

October 08, 2014 Leave a Comment

Tiruvannamali by @mimnati via Instagram. Show us your sacred! Share your images with us by tagging your photos with #sacredmatters on Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr or email us at sacredmatters [at] emory [dot] edu. Please include where and when your photo

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The Weight of the Guru: A Review of Kumaré

September 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

By Anandi Leela Salinas In Sanskrit, the term guru is defined as: “important,” “valuable,” “respectable,” and “heavy,” in addition to the definition that finds more currency in 21st century America: spiritual teacher in a general “Eastern” tradition. There have been a

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Daily Sacred

September 02, 2014 Leave a Comment

My sunrise running partners while in Dharamsala on the Emory Mind/Body Sciences Summer Abroad trip. By Elie Goldman. Show us your sacred! Share your images with us by tagging your photos with #sacredmatters on Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr or email

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Daily Sacred

August 26, 2014 Leave a Comment

Our image of the day is from one of our associate editors, Anandi Salinas. This image is of the feet of Vishnu from the Srikurmam Temple in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, India in 2010. Though outside of the main temple and

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If You See Shirdi Sai Baba’s Face on This Wall, Don’t Worry . . . It’s Normal

May 19, 2014 Leave a Comment

Jonathan Loar I.  The miracle in Mississauga Last month, the face of Shirdi Sai Baba (d. 1918)—a holy man who lived about 150 years ago in the small village of Shirdi in what is today the state of Maharashtra in

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