Sant Mat Satsang PODcast
With Veena Howard
Hear the January 2011 Sant Mat
Satsang PODcast: The Guest is
Professor Veena Howard - Program
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All about Traditional Sant Mat from an
Indian Perspective. My guest is Veena
Howard: A delightful conversation
introducing listeners to a rare spiritual
path from India known as Sant Mat,
which means, The Way of the Saints. It
also can be translated as, The Path of
the Masters.
Professor Veena Rani Howard
Short Biography
Veena Rani Howard's interest lies in
Hindu thought and comparative
religion. Her current research is on
ideological debates that take place
within the native discourse of Indian
thought, as well as in the recent
interactions between native and
Western interpretations. She analyzes
the intersection of different discourses,
such as that between classical Indian
philosophical logic and Western
philosophical and political dialectics
that mediate emerging conversations in
the field. She received her higher
education in India as well in the USA
and has master's degrees in English
Literature, Indian Philosophy, and
Western Philosophy.
She is currently writing her doctoral
thesis on Mahatma Gandhi at Lancaster
University, UK.
She teaches courses on Hinduism and
other religions of India at the University
of Oregon and Lane Community College.
She has translated two books of the
Saint Tradition of Northern India,
Moksha Darsana (The Philosophy of
Liberation) and Sarvadharma Samanvya
(Harmony of All Religions).
Her articles have been published in
essay collections, including Who
Exactly Is the Other? Western and
Transcultural Perspectives, University
of Oregon Books (2002) and
Asceticism, Identity and Pedagogy in
Dharma Traditions, Contemporary
Issues in Constructive Dharma, vol. 3
(2006). She is a frequent presenter at
conferences, including most recently:
the Association for Practical and
Professional Ethics (2003); Justice Will
Kiss Mercy: A Conference on the
Vocation of Peacemaking in a World of
Many Faiths, Marquette University
(2005); East-West Philosophers’
Conference, University of Hawaii
(2005); Dharma Association of North
America at American Academy of
Religion (2005); and Deep Listening,
Deep Hearing: Buddhism and
Psychotherapy East and West,
University of Oregon (2006).
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