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| The Evolution of the Hindu Heritage Summer Camp Tradition. (encore) |
| July 07, 2022 |
Summer is not yet over for campers attending the Hindu Heritage Summer Camp in Rochester, New York. |
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| "It's not like there's just one path that I'm in for the rest of my life." |
July 07, 2022 |
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2021 was Radhika Amin’s last summer attending the Hindu Heritage Summer Camp in upstate New York. Each year the camp attracts 200 eight to 15-year-olds to attend two-week sessions at the rural campus on the outskirts of Rochester. Amin, now a 20-year-old college student, served as the camp director for the first session. She describes the typical day and the not-so-typical lessons that include learning about Vedic philosophy, chanting in Sanskrit, and participating in religious rituals. Amin credits the two-week immersion experience at one of the nation’s oldest and longest-running Hindu overnight camps with shaping her spiritual identity and broadening her understanding of the different expressions of Hinduism.
Radhika Amin. Rising senior in Case Western’s BS/MD program, majoring in Medical Anthropology with minors in Chemistry and Psychology. She grew up in Rochester, NY. Radhika has attended HHSC for 13 years as a camper, counselor, staff coordinator, assistant director, and, most recently, as director. She is captain of Case Western's Bollywood fusion dance team and loves to dance, read, and paint in her free time. |
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| "I Stepped on an Escalator and I Had to Follow it." - The Spiritual Journey of Devi Parvati" |
July 07, 2022 |
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Raised in a Jewish home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Devi Parvati breaks all kinds of stereotypes. Today the mystic who identifies as a practitioner of all traditions describes how her life changed when she attended a retreat at an Ashram in the Poconos in 1968 and her journey to becoming a Swami. Devi Parvati shares her family's reaction to her career as a teacher to live full-time on a communal Ashram under the supervision of Swami Lakshmi Devi and how the needs of new Indian immigrant families drew her to another calling: establishing a permanent Hindu summer camp for children.
Devi Parvati. Founder, in 1976, of Hindu Heritage Summer Camp. She trains young camp veterans to assume leadership roles as directors and staff, oversees camp classes in philosophy and chanting, and conducts special classes, pujas, and meditation sessions for the summer camp program. |
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| "It’s More than Fun Games" - Traditions, Culture, and Control. |
July 07, 2022 |
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Summer camps are not just about fun and games according to Dr. Shana Sippy,.They are, more broadly speaking, immersive and unique experiences that quickly create an ethos and culture that allow for the transmission of tradition, morality, and beliefs. In this conversation, she offers some history and context on the Hindu camping movement. She underscores the role that different institutions play from local Temples to transnational ideological movements with political agendas and interests in shaping a younger generation. Next year, New York University Press will be publishing her book, Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Cultivation of Longing which details Sippy's research on the powerful role Hindu camps and weekend schools have in transmitting identity, and their impact on the broader culture.
Shana Sippy, Ph.D. Assistant professor of religion at Center College in Danville KY. Co-director of ReligionsMN and consultant for the public television series Sacred Minnesota. She earned a master's of theological studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Columbia University.
Our theme music is by MC Yogi
This week's closing music, New Hope, by Audiobinger.
Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Remixes and original loops by Dissimilation Heavy Industries.
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