Please join the Smithsonian Associates in welcoming Richard H. Davis, author of Religions of Early India. In his new book, professor emeritus of religion Richard H. Davis delves into the world of popular religions in early India. Developing alongside the better-known religious traditions found in the Vedas, Upanishads, and Buddhist and Jain teachings, which were maintained by elite classes and monastic specialists, the little goddesses and other icons reveal a different side of Indic religiosity: modest, domestic, devotional, earthly, and oriented to this world.