Jyotsna Raj and Indra Raj
Recorded
November 12, 2023
Archived
November 12, 2023
43:04 minutes
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Id:
ddb002663
Description
Jyotsna Raj (71) speaks with her daughter Indra Raj (37) about Hindu faith and belief in God. Indra speaks about not believing in God, her concerns about organized religion, and how she aims to live a moral life. Jyotsna describes her experience of being Hindu and what troubles her about the trajectory of contemporary Hindu spaces.Subject Log / Time Code
Jyotsna (J) describes being born into the Hindu religion. She speaks about how she would choose the Hindu religion even if she wasn't born into it.
Indra (I) recalls being a young Indian-American and her relationship with the Hindu religion.
Both J and I discuss Atheism compared with Agnosticism.
J and I speak about the roles of Hindu ideology and traditions in their lives.
J describes the traditions of her reformed Hindu upbringing and what parts of Hinduism she continues to value.
J recalls her Christian education in school and her current relationship with Christ.
J talks about the influence of Hinduism in her day to day life.
I explains how she wishes to raise her two sons.
I describes her friend who she has fallen out of touch with after the friend's conversion to Catholicism.
J expresses her concerns with what she sees to be an increasing rigidity in Hinduism.
J and I speak about J's husband (I's "Pa")— describing his religiosity and poetry.
J and I discuss morality and identity.
Participants
- Jyotsna Raj
- Indra Raj