Vijaya Nagarajanis an Associate Professor, former Chair of the Department of Theology/Religious Studies, and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She writes and teaches on Hinduism, gender, ritual, ecology, Hinduism/climate, the commons, energy, and ethics. She has also been active in the American Academy of Religion and in environmental movements in the United States and in India. Her book, Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Ecology in India— An Exploration of the Kolam, is a deep exploration of a popular women’s ephemeral ritual art made of rice flour, the kolam, and the multiple ways in which beauty can embody ethics.
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