History & Classics' 2019 Singhmar Lecture Series

Elizabeth Rohlman on "Rewriting Religion and Rescuing Genre: The Evolution of Texts, Gods, and Peoples in the Sanskrit Purāṇas" | Thursday, October 24, 2019 (4:00 pm) | Tory 2-58

24 October 2019

Elizabeth Rohlman is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary. She is an historian of religion whose research examines the role of narrative literature in articulating and constructing religious identity in premodern South Asia. Her research examines the regional purāṇas* of Gujarat, including the Sarasvatī Purāṇa, as well as the purāṇic genre more generally, especially with respect to the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.

* Purāṇas: any of a class of Sanskrit sacred writings containing Hindu legends and folklore of varying date and origin, the most ancient of which dates from the 4th century AD.

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