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Doctoral defense: 2 April 2010, Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent
- Raf Gelders: 10h - 12h
Ascetics and Crafty Priests: Orientalism and the european representations of india.
- Sarah Claerhout: 15h - 17h
“Losing My Tradition”: Conversion, Secularism and Religious Freedom in India.
The Research Centre organizes a panel 'Is there a religious-secular divide in the Indian traditions?' at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 25-28 March 2010.
Papers and participants:
- "Why there cannot be a religious-secular divide in the Indian traditions", Dr. Jakob De Roover, Ghent University
- "Spiritual Economies: The Myth of the Religious Neutrality of the Secular and the Question of Indian Secularism",
Dr. Robert Yelle, University of Memphis
- "How should the secular state relate to religious conversion in India?", Sarah Claerhout, Ghent University
- Dr. Timothy Fitzgerald (the University of Stirling) and Dr. Balagangadhara Rao (Ghent University) will respond to the papers and the panel.
Newly published by Routledge, January 2010