This book received the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Her first book, India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes (2009), explores how an incredibly popular comic book series helped to define what it means to be Hindu and Indian for several generations of readers, and examines how the national canon of mythological and historical Indian heroes created through this medium aligned with Hindu nationalist ideology. Her area of expertise is religion in colonial and postcolonial India, and a persistent interest in religion, public culture, and pluralism underlies her diverse projects. She received her PhD in Asian Cultures and Languages from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Karline McLain is Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Bucknell University. We invite active participation from audience members in the creation of new knowledge. Research Laboratories allow audience members to interact with a panel of ELP Scholars and Interlocutors in addressing a problem of public relevance. In doing so, we seek to reflect on the webs of mutuality, interdependence, and exchange that can and do enhance the integral coexistence of human and non-human life. The laboratory will also look across different societies to explore the ways these integral interactions are mediated by material infrastructures and cultural belief systems. Rather than exploring ecology and just the sum of its parts, we explore fundamental aspects of and “integral ecology.” That is, we examine the ways environments and social relationships organize, inspire, and vitalize each other. The task of this Research Laboratory is to provide perspectives from philosophy, history, theology and anthropology about the possibilities for engaging in each other’s lives and in the natural world. SATURDAY (8/5) 9:30-10:40AM Integral Ecology: Enhancing Human and Non-Human Life I examine how central voluntary constraint was to Gandhi’s utopian vision for individual and communal flourishing, and explore the relationship between self-control and self-sacrifice. My research focuses on the communal observances and experiments undertaken at the ashrams. Residents at these ashrams engaged in crucial small-scale experiments with the ideals and methods for living a just life that Gandhi would apply to larger-scale social, religious, and political problems. Lesser known are his residential experiments conducted at the intentional living communities, or ashrams, that he founded in South Africa and India. ![]() Mahatma Gandhi is known worldwide for his nonviolent fight to attain India’s independence from colonial rule. Saturday (8/5) 3:10-3:30PM Self-Control and Self-Sacrifice at Gandhi’s Intentional Communities
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