Hello,
I am a graduate student at an international university and am taking a cultures and worldviews class where we are required to conduct numerous interviews with adherents to the culture or worldview we are learning about. I am hoping to meet some of those interview requirements on this site. The group that I am in is doing a research ethnography on Hindu Indians, and we are doing a slight focus on a certain Hindu sect called Swaminarayan Hinduism which is a large movement in Gujarat. One of the members of my team is good friends with a Swaminarayan Hindu which is how we made this connection into the culture.
Here are some general questions:
1. Where do we come from? How did we come to be?
2. What is our ultimate destiny? Is everyones the same? How is that determined?
3. What is your typical day like? How do you integrate your faith?
4. How do you define right and wrong? Good and evil?
5. What are your most important values?
The section of our group paper that I am writing is called Epistemology, which is essentially what this culture believes about truth and how it can be known. Here are some epistemological questions:
1. By what criteria do you decide what is true? What or who is the ultimate authority?
2. If two differing ideas are believed by different people to be true how do you reconcile them?
3. Can you know for sure if something is true?
4. Can anything be known as false?
5. What is the most important thing in life to you?
I realize these are pretty deep questions! Any help with these inquiries into the Hindu Indian worldview would be so greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for your time.
I am a graduate student at an international university and am taking a cultures and worldviews class where we are required to conduct numerous interviews with adherents to the culture or worldview we are learning about. I am hoping to meet some of those interview requirements on this site. The group that I am in is doing a research ethnography on Hindu Indians, and we are doing a slight focus on a certain Hindu sect called Swaminarayan Hinduism which is a large movement in Gujarat. One of the members of my team is good friends with a Swaminarayan Hindu which is how we made this connection into the culture.
Here are some general questions:
1. Where do we come from? How did we come to be?
2. What is our ultimate destiny? Is everyones the same? How is that determined?
3. What is your typical day like? How do you integrate your faith?
4. How do you define right and wrong? Good and evil?
5. What are your most important values?
The section of our group paper that I am writing is called Epistemology, which is essentially what this culture believes about truth and how it can be known. Here are some epistemological questions:
1. By what criteria do you decide what is true? What or who is the ultimate authority?
2. If two differing ideas are believed by different people to be true how do you reconcile them?
3. Can you know for sure if something is true?
4. Can anything be known as false?
5. What is the most important thing in life to you?
I realize these are pretty deep questions! Any help with these inquiries into the Hindu Indian worldview would be so greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for your time.