{"id":8371,"date":"2010-04-14T03:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2010-04-14T03:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:11:56","slug":"new-vrindaban-hosts-harvards-pluralism-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8371","title":{"rendered":"New Vrindaban Hosts Harvard’s Pluralism Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Bhaktin Rita Gupta<\/strong>
\nApril 11, 2010 <\/p>\n

This past weekend, New Vrindaban Community hosted 36 students from the Global Leadership Center (GLC) at Ohio University it Athens, OH. Dr. Greg Emery, the GLC\u2019s Director, is an affiliate of Harvard University\u2019s Pluralism Project, which studies religious diversity in the United States, focusing on communities and religious traditions from Asia and the Middle East. The Pluralism Project is funded by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.<\/p>\n

Dr. Emery first encountered the Hare Krishna tradition as an undergraduate student in 1980 when he met Radhanath Swami, who was then a member of New Vrindaban Community. Dr. Emery continues to visit New Vrindaban regularly as part of his on-going research on the community. <\/p>\n

The GLC offers a two-year undergraduate certificate that prepares students to be internationally-minded professions. \u201cStudying the Hare Krishna tradition is the most exciting project we\u2019ve had over the past two years,\u201d said Diana Gryniuk, a junior in Communications Studies. \u201cA lot of us are Catholic, and this is the first religion-based project we have had.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cVisiting New Vrindaban was refreshing,\u201d agreed Tara Frazier, a junior in Communications Studies. \u201cAll our other projects have involved business, politics, and history. It\u2019s nice to think about something besides yourself and the world\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am going to go back to school happy. Visiting New Vrindaban got me out of my bubble and made me see that spirituality is important,\u201d said Michael Lupsa, a junior in Arabic and Italian. <\/p>\n

On Saturday, the GLC students took guided tours of the Palace of Gold, and attended workshops on spiritual food and the intersection between spirituality and sustainability. In the evening, there was a variety of entertainment options, including a lake-side bonfire, music in the temple, and a showing of the new film \u201cThe Lost Village.\u201d On Sunday, the GLC students heard some basics of Hare Krishna philosophy, visited New Vrindaban\u2019s Small Farm Training Center, and attended a panel discussion on women in the Hare Krishna tradition. <\/p>\n

Many students agreed that they will visit New Vrindaban again, when they need a break from school and studying. \u201cI definitely want to come back for the 24-hour Kirtan Festival on June 19,\u201d said Lupsa hopefully. \u201cThis is what I want to do with my life \u2013 experience things, taste the food, and visit the farm. I want to be a world citizen and not live in a bubble. \u201d<\/p>\n

New Vrindaban Community is located south of Moundsville \u2013 Wheeling, off Route 250. For more information, contact (304) 843-1600 x105 or mail@newvrindaban.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Bhaktin Rita Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

This past weekend, New Vrindaban Community hosted 36 students from the Global Leadership Center (GLC) at Ohio University it Athens, OH. Dr. Greg Emery, the GLC\u2019s Director, is an affiliate of Harvard University\u2019s Pluralism Project, which studies religious diversity in the United States, focusing on communities and religious traditions from Asia and the Middle East. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}