{"id":6718,"date":"2020-01-02T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2020-02-10T21:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:13:54","slug":"christian-women-ethical-practices-of-care-engaging-the-immoral-nepal-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/christian-women-ethical-practices-of-care-engaging-the-immoral-nepal-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Women, Ethical Practices of Care: Engaging the (Im)moral Nepal State &#8211; a talk by Lauren Leve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":gf\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":ge\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>On December 5, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Asia Center<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/nepal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Nepal Studies Initiative<\/a>\u00a0hosted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/religion.unc.edu\/_people\/full-time-faculty\/leve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Lauren Leve<\/a>\u00a0(UNC-Chapel Hill) for the final South Asia Colloquium of the autumn quarter. The event was co-sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anthropology.washington.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Anthropology<\/a>. Speaking to a full house in Denny Hall, Leve discussed her ongoing ethnographic research related to Christianity, the ethics of care, and gendered religious labor in Gorkha, Nepal. Leve shared videos from her field site to demonstrate the intensity of affect and unique gender dynamics operating in Gorkha\u2019s churches, and Leve\u2019s talk sparked multiple questions on the intersections of caste, class and gender at play among Nepal\u2019s rapidly-growing Christian population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Check out the full video of Leve&#8217;s talk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tVVHQWX-FLc&amp;feature=youtu.be\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\":el\" class=\"hq gt a10\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 5, the\u00a0South Asia Center\u00a0and\u00a0Nepal Studies Initiative\u00a0hosted\u00a0Professor Lauren Leve\u00a0(UNC-Chapel Hill) for the final South Asia Colloquium of the autumn quarter. The event was co-sponsored by the\u00a0Department of Anthropology. Speaking to a full house in Denny Hall, Leve discussed her ongoing ethnographic research related to Christianity, the ethics of care, and gendered religious labor in<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/christian-women-ethical-practices-of-care-engaging-the-immoral-nepal-state\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":6735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christian Women, Ethical Practices of Care: Engaging the (Im)moral Nepal State - a talk by Lauren Leve - South Asia Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/christian-women-ethical-practices-of-care-engaging-the-immoral-nepal-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian Women, Ethical Practices of Care: Engaging the (Im)moral Nepal State - a talk by Lauren Leve - South Asia Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On December 5, the\u00a0South Asia Center\u00a0and\u00a0Nepal Studies Initiative\u00a0hosted\u00a0Professor Lauren Leve\u00a0(UNC-Chapel Hill) for the final South Asia Colloquium of the autumn quarter. 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