Nepal

In Search of Kailash

Posted on July 13, 2016July 12, 2016 by Chris Crews

For the past several years I have been working with a team of scholars, writers, artists and educators preparing for a month-long religious pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar in western ... Read More

When the Anthropocene Came to Halji

Posted on January 8, 2015January 7, 2015 by Chris Crews

This is the second in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya. Read the first post here. The rocky trail we had been hiking all day along the Limi River was inter... Read More

A Landscape of Lived Religion in Nepal

Posted on December 2, 2014December 1, 2014 by Chris Crews

This is the first in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya I recently returned from a month of fieldwork and research in Humla, the northwestern district of Nep... Read More

The Struggle for Dalit Rights in South Asia

Posted on October 20, 2014November 28, 2015 by Chris Crews

Have you ever had a theme assert itself over and over in a very short period of time, as if the universe was sending you cosmic hints to pay attention? In my case, the message right now involves socia... Read More