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DESCRIPTION:South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship\n\nThe School o
 f Religious Studies invites you to this year’s South Asian Religions Disti
 nguished Lectureship\, given by Prof. Joyce Flueckiger from Emory Universi
 ty. The lecture is open to public.\n\nLecture:\n\nFrom Protectors to Prote
 cted: Transformations of Space and Goddesses in South India\n\nSpeaker:\n
 \nJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger\n\nProfessor Emerit\, Department of Religion
 \n\nEmory University\n\nWhen:\n\nMarch 25\, 2025\, 3:30-6:00PM\n\nBirks Bu
 ilding Chapel\n\nAbstract:\n\nThis talk analyzes the agency of materiality
 —and its limits—through an ethnographic study of architecturally transform
 ed goddess shrines in urban South India. As the shrines of village goddess
 es (gramadevatas) are being transformed\, so too are the identities\, theo
 logies\, and rituals of the goddesses. Goddesses who used to live in the o
 pen and protect village boundaries and water sources are now surrounded by
  urban landscapes and are architecturally enclosed by walls and roofs. The
  goddesses are gradually transforming from powerful\, yet accessible\, ind
 ependent protectors who like to wander to stabilized goddesses who need ar
 chitectural and (male) societal protection. However\, there are examples o
 f goddesses who exert their own agency of resistance to being bound by wal
 ls. The talk will also highlight methodologies for the study of materialit
 y.\n
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LOCATION:Birks Heritage Chapel\, 2nd Floor\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Mon
 treal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue University
SUMMARY:South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship: From Protectors to
  Protected: Transformations of Space and Goddesses in South India
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/channels/event/south-asian-relig
 ions-distinguished-lectureship-protectors-protected-transformations-space-
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