MIPodcast #123—Pursuing the intellectual life from a place of commitment, with Ravi Gupta
Channel: Maxwell Institute
Date: 2020-12-29

Dr. Ravi Gupta joins guest host Philip Barlow to talk about faith and scholarship. Dr. Gupta was a visiting scholar at the Maxwell Institute this semester, and a previous guest on the Maxwell Institute Podcast. He's a practicing Hindu and also a scholar of Hinduism, and he's become a close friend of the Institute over the past few years. He's known Dr. Barlow for even longer, so here you'll t to hear two old friends talking about the benefits and drawbacks of being a believer and a scholar of one's own religious tradition.

RAVI M. GUPTA is the Charles Redd Professor of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author or editor of four books, including an abridged translation (with Kenneth Valpey) of the Bhagavata Purana, one of India’s most beloved sacred texts in the Sanskrit language. Ravi holds a doctorate in Hindu Studies from Oxford University and has taught at the University of Florida, Centre College, and the College of William and Mary. His current interests have drawn him to religion and ecology.

See mi.byu.edu/mip-gupta.
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