To begin with, three encounters. My first experiences of real religious space as a young man were in Hindu, Jewish, and Orthodox Christian settings. My junior year of high school I took a sociology class that asked me to visit a religious group I myself did not belong to; it eventuated in my first trip to the Hindu Temple of St. Louis, a beautiful mandi…
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