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

Education

Rambachan completed his undergraduate studies at the

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, St. Augustine, Trinidad. He received his M.A. (Distinction) and Ph.D. degrees from the

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, 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." 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,

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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.

Activities

Rambachan is a Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College,

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, USA. He has been teaching at St. Olaf since 1985.St. Olaf Colleg
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/ref> 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

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, 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. 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

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and participated in the last four General Assemblies. From 2013 to 2017, Rambachan published articles as an author on the Huffington Post, covering topics related to Hinduism. From 2017 on, he moved his writings to the blog portion of his website. 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

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. 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, Trinidad and Tobago's second highest national honor for public service.

Selected works

* * * * * * Reviews of ''A Hindu Theology of Liberation'': Harold Coward (2015), ''Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies'', ; Michelle Voss Roberts (2016), ''Horizons'',

References

Sources

National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago

World Council of Churches Address Notification
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External links

Anantanand Rambachan at ''Digital Commons''
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