{"id":8425,"date":"2009-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/06\/faculty-approve-new-course-exploring-modern-hinduism\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T12:00:00","slug":"faculty-approve-new-course-exploring-modern-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/06\/faculty-approve-new-course-exploring-modern-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Approve New Course Exploring Modern Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.thedepauw.com\/media\/storage\/paper912\/news\/2009\/11\/03\/News\/Faculty.Approve.New.Course.Exploring.Modern.Hinduism-3820883.shtml\">media.www.thedepauw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, November 3, 2009: The DePauw University faculty approved a new course called REL 357: Modern Hinduism at the faculty meeting Monday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the course description, students will examine &#8220;the rise of Hindu modernity from the colonial period to the present day.&#8221; The main objective is to &#8220;encourage an understanding of the embedded nature of modern Hinduism within the historical matrices of culture, society, politics and economics in South Asia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religious studies allows us to look at the various religions of the world from a perspective we don&#8217;t typically do otherwise,&#8221; said senior Melissa Zimmerman, a religious studies major. &#8220;There are modern courses in Islam and Christianity, so why not Hinduism?&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: media.www.thedepauw.com GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, November 3, 2009: The DePauw University faculty approved a new course called REL 357: Modern Hinduism,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}