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Jeffery Long
First Name
Jeffery
Last Name
Long
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I am the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania. I have been practicing Hinduism throughout my adult life and am adherent of the Vedanta tradition of Sri Ramakrishna, the Holy Mother Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda. I write about Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, as well as worldview pluralism and process thought. I work as a Hindu process theologian and see many profound affinities between process thought and various Hindu systems of philosophy.
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“Hindu” was originally a word given by the Greeks, then the Persians, to the land and peoples beyond the Indus or “Sindhu” River. The term “...
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