Legendary professor of the world's religions Huston Smith interviews Pr. Amalaprana, General Secretary of Sri Sarada Math in India. Recorded on 5/25/1997.
This talk was sponsored by Sri Sarada Mahila Samiti of Northern California. In 1997, Revered Pravrajika Amalaprana Mataji gave an exceptional talk titled, "God as Mother". The late Dr. Huston Smith interviewed Mataji in a television studio where it was video recorded.
Huston Cummings Smith (May 31, 1919 - December 30, 2016) was a leading scholar of religious studies in the United States. He was widely regarded as one of the world's most influential figures in religious studies. He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book The World's Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) sold over three million copies as of 2017 and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion.
Born and raised in Suzhou, China in a Methodist missionary family, Huston Smith moved back to the United States at the age of 17 and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1945 with a PhD in philosophy. He spent the majority of his academic career as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1947-1958), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958-1973) and Syracuse University (1973-1983). In 1983, he retired from Syracuse and moved to Berkeley, California, where he was a visiting professor of religious studies at the University of California, Berkeley until his death.
Pravrajika Amalaprana is the current General Secretary of Sri Sarada Math, Dakshineswar. She spoke at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1993 and subsequently toured the United States and returned again in 1997. She has traveled widely throughout India, Europe, South Africa, and North America. She served as the Principal of the Girl's College, Vivekananda Vidya Bhavan in Dum Dum, Kolkata before moving to Sri Sarada Math headquarters.
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