The Friends of India present “The Open Door: Dargahs and Multi-Religious Devotion in India,” a talk by talk by Professor Anna Bigelow of North Carolina State University, on Monday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in the Grover Center, W305.
Anna Bigelow
“We all know the sacred places in India (e.g. Ayodhya and Mathura) that have been the sites of religious conflict, but Prof. Bigelow’s work focuses on sites of religious cooperation,” notes Dr. Brian Collins, Assistant Professor and Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy.
Bigelow earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara with a focus on South Asian Islam. Her book, Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Oxford University Press, 2010) is a study of a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community. Bigelow’s current research, funded by the Scholars Program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, involves further study of contested and cooperatively patronized multi-religious sacred sites in South Asia and the Middle East, focusing on the inter-religious dynamics that complicate or ameliorate these relations in plural communities around the globe. She speaks and writes frequently on religious extremism, religion and conflict, and the role of Islam in the world today.
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