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SUMMARY:South Asia Guest Lecture Series - John Cort\, Room Ruhrpott (4.13)
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DESCRIPTION:Biographies of objects and metaphors: The Example of the Jain 
 shrine from Las Vegas\n\n\n    One of the highlights of the Louisiana P
 urchase Exposition—better known as the World’s Fair—held in St. Loui
 s in 1904 was the Jain Temple in the East India Building. It was said to b
 e a one-eighth size teakwood replica of a marble temple at Palitana\, the 
 Jain pilgrimage site in Gujarat in western India. The East India pavilion 
 was organized by the Indian Tea Association to promote the drinking of tea
  by Americans\, so that a visitor could “drink tea from India served by 
 natives in Oriental dress.” After the Exposition closed the temple remai
 ned out of sight for fifty years. It resurfaced in 1963 as the Temple of L
 uck at the Castaways Hotel\, a casino on the Las Vegas strip. When the Cas
 taways closed in 1987\, Jains from the Los Angeles area bought the temple.
  In 2008 the new Jain Center of Southern California opened in San Mateo\, 
 and the Jain temple has a prominent place in the Center.\n    In this t
 alk Cort follows the complicated lives of this temple from India for over 
 a century in the United States\, from being an object of imperial Oriental
 ist display to being a symbol of mid-century American fantasies to now bei
 ng an object of pride for the recently immigrated Jain community.\n \n\nJ
 ohn E. Cort is Professor Emeritus of Asian and Comparative Religions in th
 e Department of Religion at Denison University in Granville\, Ohio\, USA\,
  where he also taught in the International Studies\, Environmental Studies
  and East Asian Studies programs. His research has focused on the ritual\,
  visual\, material and literary culture and history of western and norther
 n India\, with a special focus on the Jains.\n\n \n\nhttps://ruhr-uni-boc
 hum.zoom-x.de/j/63715524351?pwd=emNseDAveC90d2RvZWN1SDkxWVlCZz09\n\nMeetin
 g-ID: 637 1552 4351\nPasswort: 820451
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