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...Parimal Patil...
...Parimal G. Patil is committed to looking for religion in “all the wrong places.” Patil, assistant professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies and of the study of religion, studies stylized poetry and logic texts in his quest to uncover the intellectual, philosophical, and religious roots of contemporary South Asian religions...
...motivating factors is that I think that we’ve pretty much got the history of religion in South Asia wrong,” Patil says...
...goal is to take classical Sanskrit literary and religious texts and place them back in their historical contexts. In analyzing these works using rigorous theoretical frameworks, Patil hopes that the materials will come alive, existing as more than just artifacts from someone else’s intellectual past...
...Patil says he didn’t have the “guts” to pursue a career in the humanities, so he first majored in biochemistry and philosophy as an undergraduate. It was only a few years after he graduated college, and after he took a Sanskrit course at Harvard, that he decided he really ought to pursue his first choice...