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DESCRIPTION:Drew Thomases\,&nbsp\;PhD Candidate\, Department of Religion\, 
 Columbia\nUniversityFilth\, Flowers\, and Trash\, Oh My!\nCleaning for the
  Sacred in Pushkar\, IndiaBased on\nethnographic work in the pilgrimage an
 d tourist town of Pushkar\,\nIndia\, this paper looks to the environmental
  degradation that has befallen the\nholy lake there\, and explores efforts
  on the part of local Hindus to clean it.\nThinking alongside the work of 
 Catherine Bell\, Thomases\naims to show how environmentalism becomes ritua
 lized\, and in turn renders a\nplace sacred.Open to the PublicSponsored by
  the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs 
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SUMMARY:SAC presents: Drew Thomases
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p><b>Drew Thomases</b>\,&nbsp\;<i>PhD 
 Candidate\, Department of Religion\, Columbia\nUniversity</i></p><p><b>Fil
 th\, Flowers\, and Trash\, Oh My!\nCleaning for the Sacred in Pushkar\, In
 dia</b></p>Based on\nethnographic work in the pilgrimage and tourist town 
 of Pushkar\,\nIndia\, this paper looks to the environmental degradation th
 at has befallen the\nholy lake there\, and explores efforts on the part of
  local Hindus to clean it.\nThinking alongside the work of Catherine Bell\
 , Thomases\naims to show how environmentalism becomes ritualized\, and in 
 turn renders a\nplace sacred.<p>Open to the Public</p><p><b><i>Sponsored b
 y the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs</i></b
 ></p><p> </p><p></p>
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