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Research Focus Group Talk: Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini, Nepal

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Arjun Kurmi will discuss how environmental activists in Lumbini, Nepal appeal to local religious cultures and spiritual values to promote the protection of wildlife, especially the regal Sarus Cranes, and motivate tree-planting and other environmental protection measures. Arjun Kurmi is an environmental activist and founder of Green Youth of Lumbini, an environmental NGO in Nepal. Zoom attendance link here Cosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group, the Walter H. Capps Center ...

Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast

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This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks, illustrated editions, and comics, this moral framework is often softened, secularized, or inverted. Through examples from Italy, the United States, and Japan, the talk shows how artists translate Dante’s violence into abstraction, irony, or spectacle, transforming divine retribution into aesthetic or ...