The Little Ice Age and Devotional Practices in the Transforming Landscape of Northern India
American Academy of Religion
English - May 20, 2021 19:30 - 23 minutes - 42.5 MB - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sugata Ray's 2019 book "Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850" won AAR's Religion and the Arts Book Award in 2020, the award's inaugural year. In this interview with Kristian Petersen, Ray talks about his book and explains how a landscape transformed by the Little Ice Age became part of evolving conceptualizations, rituals, and aesthetics involved in devotional practices of Northern Indian worshippers of Krishna.
Sugata Ray is associate professor of South and Southeast Asian art at the University of California, Berkeley.