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Rambachan discusses religion with 'Boston Globe'

By David Gonnerman '90
September 15, 2009

After a recent trip to the new Hindu Temple of Minnesota, Boston Globe reporter Michael Paulsen wrote about a panel on Hinduism in America that he moderated. One participant was St. Olaf Professor of Religion Anantanand Rambachan, whose Trinidadian Hindu roots make him a "minority within a minority."

"[Rambachan] called Hinduism the least understood among American religious traditions," writes Paulsen. Noting that Judaism, Christianity and Islam emphasize the oneness of God, Rambachan explained that "Hinduism offers a plethora of iconography and celebrates a multiplicity of divine names and forms."

The piece also appeared in the U.K.'s Sikh Times.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.