Anantanand Rambachan

Anantanand Rambachan is a professor of religion at St. Olaf College.

Education

Rambachan completed his undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. He received his M.A. (Distinction) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom, where he researched "classical Advaita epistemology and, in particular, the significance of the śruti as a source of valid knowledge (pramāṇa) in Śaṅkara."^{[citation needed]}

Since 1985 Rambachan has been teaching in the Department of Religion at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, USA, where he "continued my research and writing on Advaita, the Hindu tradition in a global context, Hindu ethics, Hinduism and contemporary issues and interreligious dialogue." Starting 2013, Professor Rambachan was Forum Humanum Visiting Professor at the Academy for World Religions at Hamburg University, Germany until 2017.^[1][2]

Activities

Rambachan is a Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College, Minnesota, USA.^[3] He has been teaching at St. Olaf since 1985.^[4] Rambachan is a Hindu and was the first non-Christian chair of the Religion Department at this Lutheran college. He is a member of the Theological Education Steering Committee of the American Academy of Religion, the Advisory Council of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, an advisor to Harvard University's Pluralism Project, Chair of the Board for the MN Multifaith Network, and is a member with Consultation on Population and Ethics, a non-governmental organization, affiliated with the United Nations.^[4]

Rambachan is very involved with interreligious dialogue and more specifically, Hindu-Christian dialogue. He continues to participate in interreligious activities, both nationally and internationally. He is an active member and participant in the dialogue program of the World Council of Churches and participated in the last four General Assemblies.^{[citation needed]}

From 2013 to 2017, Rambachan published articles as an author on the Huffington Post, covering topics related to Hinduism.^[5] From 2017 on, he moved his writings to the blog portion of his website.^[6]

He has traveled and lectured in Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, India, Trinidad, Brazil, The Vatican, Japan, Italy, Spain, Canada and the United Kingdom. A series of 25 lectures was broadcast internationally by the BBC. Rambachan also led the first White House celebration of the Hindu Festival of Diwali in 2003. He continues to return to Trinidad on a yearly basis and was awarded the Chaconia Gold Medal,^[7] Trinidad and Tobago's second highest national honor for public service.

Selected works

• Rambachan, Anantanand (1991), Accomplishing the Accomplished: the Vedas as a Source of Valid Knowledge in Śankara, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 0-8248-1358-8^[8]
• Rambachan, Anantanand (1992), The Hindu Vision, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass^[9]
• Rambachan, Anantanand (1994), The Limits of Scripture: Vivekananda's Reinterpretation of the Vedas, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 0-8248-1542-4^[10]
• Rambachan, Anantanand (1999), Gītānidarśana: Similes of the Bhagavadgītā, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass^[11]
• Rambachan, Anantanand (2006), The Advaita Worldview: God, World, and Humanity, Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-6852-6^[12]
• Rambachan, Anantanand (2014), A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-1-4384-5455-9^[13]

References

1. "Prof. Dr. Anantanand Rambachan, Forum Humanum Gastprofessor für Hinduismus und Dialog". Universität Hamburg. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
2. Anantanand, Rambachan. "Biography". Anantanand Rambachan. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
3. "Anantanand Rambachan". St. Olaf College.
4. St. Olaf College Anant Rambachan
5. "CONTRIBUTOR Anantanand Rambachan". Huffpost. Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
6. Rambachan, Anantanand (31 May 2021). "Blog". Anantanand Rambachan.
7. National Library of Trinidad Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
8. Reviews of Accomplishing the Accomplished: Kisor K. Chakrabarti (1993), The Journal of Asian Studies, doi:10.2307/2058913, JSTOR 2058913; Francis X. Clooney (1993), Journal of the American Oriental Society, doi:10.2307/604230, JSTOR 604230; W. Halbfass (1995), Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, JSTOR 24007855; Arvind Sharma (1993), Philosophy East and West, JSTOR 1399211
9. Review of The Hindu Vision: R. N. D. (1996), Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, JSTOR 41702213
10. Review of The Limits of Scripture: Harold Coward (1995), The Journal of Asian Studies, doi:10.2307/2059496, JSTOR 2059496
11. Review of Gītānidarśana: Thomas Forsthoefel (2002), International Journal of Hindu Studies, JSTOR 20106820
12. Roberts, Michelle Voss (2009), "Response to Rambachan's The Advaita Worldview and Thatamanil's The Immanent Divine", Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, 22, Article 5, doi:10.7825/2164-6279.1432
13. Reviews of A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Harold Coward (2015), Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, doi:10.7825/2164-6279.1613; Michelle Voss Roberts (2016), Horizons, doi:10.1017/hor.2016.40

Sources

• National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago
• St. Olaf College
• World Council of Churches Address Notification
• Rambachan, Anant Anand (1984), The attainment of moksha according to Shankara and Vivekananda with special reference to the significance of scripture (sruti) and experience (anubhabva) (PDF), University of Leeds
• Rambachan, Anantanand (1991), Accomplishing the Accomplished: The Vedas as a Source of Valid Knowledge in Shankara, University of Hawaii Press
• Rambachan, Anatanand (1994), The Limits of Scripture: Vivekananda's Reinterpretation of the Vedas, University of Hawaii Press

External links

• Anantanand Rambachan at Digital Commons