Scott Symposium Talk: Jenn Ortegren & Bill Waldron: What Is Religious Studies? Two Examples from India

The Religion Department at Middlebury College will present the Scott Symposium titled “What Is Religious Studies?: Two Examples from India” on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4 in the Orchard Room (Hillcrest 103) at 4:30 p.m. Community members are welcome. Sponsored by the Department of Religion with generous support from the Charles P. Scott Memorial Fund.

The symposium consists of Middlebury religion department faculty members, Jenn Ortegren and Bill Waldron, who will present on their recently published books, Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism and Making Sense of Mind-Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters. They will talk briefly about the content of their books, their similarities and differences in research and writing, and how their work reflects the diversity of the broader field of Religious Studies.