{"id":129,"date":"2017-10-11T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-religious-studies\/facultystaff\/jameslaine\/"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:29:32","slug":"jameslaine","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/facultystaff\/jameslaine\/","title":{"rendered":"James W. Laine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jim Laine, Arnold H. Lowe Professor, specializes in the religions of Asia and Islam and also teaches a course on Catholicism that features local ethnographic fieldwork assignments. He has studied Sanskrit and Marathi languages intensively and has authored three books about India: <em>Visions of God: Theophany Narratives in the Mahabharata<\/em> (1989), <em>The Epic of Shivaji<\/em> (2001), <em>Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India<\/em>, (2003). The last stirred considerable controversy in India, resulting in a ban and indictment, both later overturned by the Indian Supreme Court. Because of the tense situation in India, he turned to a broader subject in 2004, and after ten years of research, published <em>MetaReligion: Religion and Power in World History<\/em> (2014), which explores questions of the relationship of religion to political power. He is now free to return to India, where he is pursuing a personal and scholarly interest in yoga. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BA: Texas Tech University, 1974<br \/>\nMTS: Harvard University, 1977<br \/>\nPhD: Harvard University, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Please see a list of Professor Laine&#8217;s publications in\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/james_laine\/\">Selected Works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"template":"","class_list":["post-129","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/129\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}