NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 20, 2002: The Center for the Study of Developing Societies, in collaboration with India International Center, will host a regional conference of the International Association of the History of Religions in New Delhi from December 18-21, 2003. The last date for submission of abstracts is December 15, 2002. The conference aims to encourage rigorous secular studies of the religious traditions in India, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism, including their various sects and branches. Also, in order to promote the study of religions in India as a careful secular discipline, the conference hopes to establish a process for bringing together on a regular basis scholars in India who are working in the field of religion. For more information on the conference readers may contact “source” above. HPI adds: It is a fact of the academic world that Indian universities rarely have a department of religion, something present at nearly every Western university. There are almost no “professors of Hinduism” in India itself, while there are “professors of Hinduism” at Western universities. As a result, much academic research on Hinduism published in the most respected academic journals has taken place in the West and not in India.
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