- Two winners will collect books and postage to the value of $200 from Fons Vitae Publishing and $200 from World Wisdom Books (the in-house publishers of Frithjof Schuon).
- The prize calls for "essays that explore . . . the meaning of traditional symbols." Examples given include the drum of Śiva, the Rainbow Serpent of the aboriginal peoples of Australia, the shofar, and the hijab "in the mystical traditions of Islam."
- There are academic and non-academic alternatives: the prize has two categories, postgraduate and "open."
A Blog for the study of Traditionalism and the Traditionalists
moderated by Mark Sedgwick
Friday, May 23, 2008
Ananda Coomaraswamy Essay Prize
The heavily Traditionalist and Maryami Philosophy and Religious Studies program at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia, has announced an Ananda Coomaraswamy Essay Prize.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment