NEW JERSEY, USA, March 23, 20077: (HPI note: above URL is corrected from yesterday’s item to take you directly to the Summer Hindu Studies Program web page.) Perhaps for the first time in summer, Rutgers University is including four new credit courses under religion department about Hindu culture and religion: 1. Hinduism through its Narrative Tradition; 2. Hindu Rituals, Festivals and Symbols; 3. Hindu Philosophy; and 4. Hinduism and Modernity. In addition, Sanskrit, the ancient Indian classical language is also offered as a credit course. All these courses can be taken by anybody without any pre-requisites. For more info, please visit URL above. (HPI note: Our thanks to Pankaj Jain for this information.)
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