BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents Arun Brahmb hatt\, assistant professor of religion\, Syracuse University.Though printi ng arrived in the Indian subcontinent just decades after Gutenberg in the mid-sixteenth century\, it was the nineteenth century and beyond that saw the widespread adoption of these technologies and the emergence of a vibra nt local publishing industry. This talk explores a specific aspect of this history: the production of sacred texts and images within Hindu sampradāy as (denominations) in the twentieth century. While there has been a growin g body of scholarship on South Asian print culture over the past few decad es\, few have addressed how the printed word and image worked together to shape religious communities.Drawing on a range of textual and visual print ed materials\, I examine how religious communities in the twentieth centur y made use of a variety of forms of print to support a devotional ethos th at was located within a broad continuum of traditions rooted in bhakti and Vedanta. This research draws in part on materials from the H. Daniel Smit h Poster Collection at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections .This talk is generously co-sponsored by the departments of Religion and A nthropology.Arun Brahmbhatt is an assistant professor of religion at Syrac use University. His research investigates how religious traditions and com munities in South Asia have navigated the forces of colonial modernity\, f ocusing on both continuities and disjunctures with the premodern past. His book project\, Debating Sanskrit: The Scholastic Imperative in Modern Hin duism\, employs archival and textual approaches to examine the sustained d eployment of classical Sanskrit in Gujarati religious communities from the nineteenth century to the present day. He is further interested in South Asian print culture\, especially in relation to religious narratives and v isual art. DTEND:20251202T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260609T212327Z DTSTART:20251202T173000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arun Brahmbhatt | Publishing Hindu Devotion in the Twentieth Centur y UID:RFCALITEM639166226071753247 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents Arun Brahmbhatt\, assistant professor of religion\, Syracuse Univ ersity.

Though printing arrived in the Indian subcontinent just decades after Gutenberg in the mid-sixteenth century\, it was the ninetee nth century and beyond that saw the widespread adoption of these technolog ies and the emergence of a vibrant local publishing industry. This talk ex plores a specific aspect of this history: the production of sacred texts a nd images within Hindu sampradāyas (denominations) in the twentieth century. While there has been a growing body of scholarship on South Asian print culture over the past few decades\, few have addresse d how the printed word and image worked together to shape religious commun ities.

Drawing on a range of textual and visual printed mater ials\, I examine how religious communities in the twentieth century made u se of a variety of forms of print to support a devotional ethos that was l ocated within a broad continuum of traditions rooted in bhakti an d Vedanta. This research draws in part on materials from the H. Daniel Smi th Poster Collection at the Syracuse University Library Special Collection s.

This talk is generously co-sponsored by the departments of Relig ion and Anthropology.

Arun Brahmbhatt is an assistant professor of religion at Syracuse University. His research investigates how religious t raditions and communities in South Asia have navigated the forces of colon ial modernity\, focusing on both continuities and disjunctures with the pr emodern past. His book project\, Debating Sanskrit: The Scholastic Imp erative in Modern Hinduism\, employs archival and textual approaches to examine the sustained deployment of classical Sanskrit in Gujarati reli gious communities from the nineteenth century to the present day. He is fu rther interested in South Asian print culture\, especially in relation to religious narratives and visual art.

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