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Video
Interview Date
6-25-1999
Abstract
Do your Hindu religious values clash with what we might call normative American cultural values?
Dr. Ramdas Lamb discusses his own experience as a vegetarian and how this has affected his participation in his own community. He remarks how this choice has made him an individual, but has not restrained him from forming relationships with others, or partaking in his Hawaiian culture. This lifestyle has allowed him to experience the phrase “Live, and Let Live”.
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Lamb, Ramdas and Benney, Alfred. Created by Alfred Benney. "Dr. Ramdas Lamb Engages with the Question: Do Your Hindu Religious Values Clash with What We Might Call Normative American Cultural Values?" June 1999. DigitalCommons@Fairfield. Web. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/asrvideos/210
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Playing Time: 3:58 minutes
About the Interviewee:
Dr. Ramdas Lamb is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii. He specializes in comparative religion and the religious traditions of India. From 1969 to 1978 he lived in India as a Hindu monk and he has also studied the traditions and practices of the Ramnami community. Dr. Lamb is President and co-founder of the Sahayog Foundation.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and "myth as explanatory narrative". He has published work on teaching with technology.