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SUMMARY:The Presence of Shirdi Sai Baba
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DESCRIPTION:The South Asian saint Shirdi Sai Baba has an ever-growing globa
	l diaspora. His inspiration and healing energies are boons reinforced for 
	many by his defiance of religious communitarianism. In welcoming all caste
	s\, creeds\, and nationalities\, Baba offers an alternative to the divisiv
	eness of his time and ours. Although Baba left his body in 1918\, he is et
	ernally present through two- and three-dimensional iconic images and figur
	al sculptures that\, as his embodiments\, are found in innumerable temples
	\, home altars\, roadside and wayside shrines\, films\, websites\, and soc
	ial media. Through a recently published volume\, Professors Srinivas and R
	oberts have explored the emergence of specific spaces\, practices\, selves
	\, presences\, and mobilities associated with Baba. Such presentations are
	 often exegetical and are interesting unto themselves\, but they also offe
	r opportunities to consider the dynamics of religious expression anywhere 
	in the world. Haptic visualities\, spatial refabulations\, corporeal mobil
	ities\, transmigrations\, universes of translation\, and positionalities i
	n trans-Asian and Indian Ocean worlds are among theoretical perspectives a
	ddressed. An anthropology of credibility is espoused as Drs. Srinivas and 
	Roberts seek to understand and\, to a degree\, participate in the truths l
	ived by Baba and his devotees.\n\nEvent Website: https://religion.ucla.edu
	/event/shirdi-sai-babas-presence-mediums-mediations-and-mobilities/\n\nSou
	rce: https://community.ucla.edu/event/bb6971ca-5077-4a83-919c-495f06a0440e
LOCATION:Royce 306 - https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAucuuppz8qEtI7
	xC0_sYiUFRSHgXDMoPSo#/registration
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