That's what really interested me about India, the religious aspect-and the extravagance of it. There was so much of it; the temples had all these things crawling all over them. It was so alive and complicated compared to the relative austerity that I saw in Jewish and especially Protestant ceremonies. Not so much Catholic ceremonies, though. I always loved Catholicism for the same reason that I love Hinduism, they're so much alike: the kitsch, the colors, the incense, the saints and the pageantry.


Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty Quotes

That's what really interested me about India, the religious aspect-and the extravagance of it. There was so much of it; the temples had all these...

That's what really interested me about India, the religious aspect-and the extravagance of it. There was so much of it; the temples had all these...

That's what really interested me about India, the religious aspect-and the extravagance of it. There was so much of it; the temples had all these...

That's what really interested me about India, the religious aspect-and the extravagance of it. There was so much of it; the temples had all these...