GUEST HOST—Pursuing the intellectual life from a place of commitment, with Ravi Gupta & Philip Barlow [MIPodcast #123]

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Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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 you’ll hear two old friends talking about the benefits and drawbacks of being a believer and a scholar of one’s own religious tradition.

About the Guest

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.

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0:00.0	It's the Maxwell Institute podcast. I'm Blair Hodges. Philip L. Barlow serves as a guest host in this episode. He sits down with Dr. Ravi Gupta to talk about faith and scholarship. Dr. Gupta was a visiting scholar at the Maxwell Institute this semester and a previous guest here 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. And he's known Dr. Barlow for even longer. So you're about to hear two old friends talking about the benefits and drawbacks of being a believer and a scholar of one's own religious tradition. Questions and comments about this and other episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast can be sent to me at
0:38.8	MI Podcast at BYU.edu.
0:41.8	It's our associate director, Philip L. Barlow, talking with Dr. Ravi Gupta of Utah State University
0:47.2	in this episode of the Maxwell Institute podcast.
0:50.8	Ravi, it's a pleasure to be with you.
0:52.8	We're pals from way back up in our Logan days together
0:56.4	at Utah State, so this isn't the first meeting for us, and we're just delighted, as you
1:01.9	already know, everybody around the Maxwell Institute is delighted at your presence here this semester,
1:07.7	and we wish we had you longer, but I've had many signals from my friends
1:13.4	up at Utah State not to try to put clutches into you, so we know that you're here just
1:19.3	through December.
1:20.5	Thank you so much, Phil.
1:22.0	This morning I'd like to talk to you about several things.
1:24.6	I'd like to talk to you about your personal life a little bit,
1:28.4	your personal life among the Latter-day Saints in particular. I'd like to talk about the nature of
1:34.7	your work and approaches to work and specifically what you're working on now in the semester
1:40.4	that you have with us. And the Maxwell Institute, as you know, is set up to be a research
1:48.1	institute on the topic of religion. And our particular mode of operation is to gather and nurture
1:54.9	support disciples, scholars as these scholars engage the world of wider ideas, but also with the interest of nourishing,
2:06.5	fortifying Latter-day Saints in their belief, and in the exploration of really fostering good causes
2:13.5	and allegiance to values and trying to make a better world. So that's not foreign to you,
2:20.9	but you're operating here in a Latter-day Saint context while being a Hindu scholar,
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