{"id":8110,"date":"2019-09-23T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:30:09","slug":"elizabethtown-college-presents-star-wars-hinduism-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/elizabethtown-college-presents-star-wars-hinduism-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Presents \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Hinduism Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian studies professor speaks on Hindu themes in the galaxy far, far away<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeffery Long, Elizabethtown College professor of religion and Asian studies, will present a lecture on Hindu influences on the \u201cStar Wars\u201d universe. The professor will discuss the religious and philosophical themes of George Lucas\u2019 science fiction series on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.<\/strong> Long, a three-time author (and counting!), plans to speak at Elizabethtown College\u2019s High Library, by the fireplace on level two.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Long is a life-long \u201cStar Wars\u201d fan and a converted Hindu practitioner. He feels the former interest opened his eyes to the latter. The mythos and messages of the space opera movies are based on religious traditions from our own planet. In particular, the \u201cStar Wars\u201d saga borrowed from scholar, Joseph Campbell\u2019s theory of the monomyth. This is the idea that heroic stories are linked by similar characters and plot points, despite being written hundreds of years apart or thousands of miles away from each other. Beyond coincidence, there is something about this structure which is innate to human nature. Long believes \u201cStar Wars\u201d aided his journey to connect to a deeper spiritual reality during a difficult time in his life. Anyone interested in seeing some of those connections for themselves (or just taking part in some nerd talk) should stop by for Long\u2019s anything-but-stuffy speech.<\/p>\n

Long sums up his motivations for the coming speech, \u201cAm I using pop culture to introduce people to Hindu concepts, or am I promoting \u2018Star Wars\u2019 by pointing out its universal spiritual relevance? I suppose I am doing both.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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Asian studies professor speaks on Hindu themes in the galaxy far, far away Jeffery Long, Elizabethtown College professor of religion and Asian studies, will present a lecture on Hindu influences on the \u201cStar Wars\u201d universe. The professor will discuss the religious and philosophical themes of George Lucas\u2019 science fiction series on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,775,7],"tags":[1238],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-hindu","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions\/8111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}