by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Jan 8, 2019 | L. DeAne Lagerqquist
india is covered with walls. We are staying inside the HMI compound, surrounded by a wall which on one side faces the neighbor’s wall which is topped with wire. Inside we enjoy green grass, profuse flowering plants, quiet peace, interrupted only by the five times...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Jan 4, 2019 | L. DeAne Lagerqquist
In his 2003 novel set in Bombay, Roberts offers his readers this description of his main character’s early obersations about the city. It is not unlike our own first day in Delhi a decade and a half later. ”The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Jan 3, 2019 | L. DeAne Lagerqquist, Uncategorized
Setting out on a pilgrimage requires some preparation, some planning, even some packing. But my reading about Indian sadhus and the story of a Jain nun highlights the task of divestment, equally of processions and of desire to control one’s journey. Taking to the open...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Dec 31, 2018 | L. DeAne Lagerqquist
Several years ago my colleague Mary Griep accompanied my class “Sacred Places in Greece and Turkey.” Among her significant contributions to the course, that and subsequent iterations, was an article about looking at buildings. The author suggested two modes. In one...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Dec 27, 2018 | L. DeAne Lagerqquist, Uncategorized
I am reading Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple, in anticipation of our journey and discussions of it. In it he offers portraits of nine persons “in search of the sacred” as “keyholes” into the larger religious ethos of South Asia. In the introduction ( p. Xvii) he...
by L. DeAne Lagerquist | Dec 17, 2018 | L. DeAne Lagerqquist
Finals are underway. We have had our last on campus orientation session: checking out iPads, learning how to make optimal use of the apps, being reminded about plug adaptors, passwords, and the like. Those of us in Northfield saw Matt and he saw us. Our next gathering...
