{"id":240,"date":"2010-12-15T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2010\/12\/15\/faculty-news-religious-studies\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:11:00","slug":"faculty-news-religious-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2010\/12\/15\/faculty-news-religious-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/religion\/faculty\/martin.asp\">Nancy M. Martin<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Religious Studies, Wilkinson College, presented a paper titled \u201cIdentities, Communities and Religious Figures in Transition: The Transformation a Sixteenth-Century Hindu Saint into a Global Icon\u201c at the International Conference on the Image held at UCLA on December 2. 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