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Core Faculty
Patricia Anderson Cooperating Faculty
David Blaney
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Jim Laine, Arnold H. Lowe Professor and Chair of the Macalester religious studies department, specializes in the religions of Asia and Islam. He works with the study abroad program in India sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and continues to research Hindu-Muslim relations in 17th century India. He leads the Maharashtra Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies, and was co-director (with Classics Professor Andrew Overman) of a summer 2000 NEH seminar for teachers. His latest book, Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India (Oxford, 2003) traces the biographies and legends of a popular Hindu hero from the seventeenth century to the present.
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