Join Borayin Larios, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, for an insightful session hosted by FLAME University’s India Centre.
The session, “Beyond Sound: The Material Lives of Mantras in Contemporary South Asia,” will explore how mantras circulate across visual, material, and digital forms in contemporary religious life. Drawing on recent fieldwork in Varanasi and research from the MANTRAMS project, the talk will examine how printed objects, devotional artifacts, notebooks for likhita japa, and viral digital imagery reshape the meaning, authority, and everyday practice of mantras across South Asia.
By situating mantras within their multisensory and multimodal environments, the session reflects on how sound, matter, and memory interact in the lived religious practices of communities today.
March 24, 2026 | 11 AM IST
Join via Zoom: https://lnkd.in/g6UbYYd5
Passcode: 543192
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