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Interview Date
2-19-2002
Abstract
Would people be religious if they were never going to die?
Dr. Tracy Pintchman discusses whether people would be religious if they were never going to die. She states that without doubt people would be religious since religion is about the human condition. Whether we die or not we are still in the human condition and will always suffer, and want things we cannot have. Death is only one aspect of the human discomfort that we all share.
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Pintchman, Tracy and Benney, Alfred. Created by Alfred Benney. "Dr. Tracy Pintchman Engages with the Question: Would People Be Religious If They Were Never Going to Die?" February 2002. DigitalCommons@Fairfield. Web. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/asrvideos/293
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Playing Time: 1:47 minutes
About the Interviewee:
Dr. Tracy Pintchman received a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara where she specialized in the study of Hinduism, with a focus on gender issues, Goddess traditions, and Hindu women's rituals. Dr. Pintchman is a Professor and Director of International Studies Program at Loyola University, Chicago. She has also taught at Northwestern University and Harvard University. Her publications include: Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition and The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition.
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.