Professor Sondra Hausner questions the assumed universalism of concepts of Paradise. From a Hindu and Buddhist perspective, such imaginaries are vehicles for transcendence.
Speaker: Sondra Hausner, Professor of Anthropology of Religion at the University of Oxford
Lost edens, hoped for utopias. The idea that a better place exists haunts the human imagination.
Accompanying the ‘On Paradise’ exhibition at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, this podcast series features members of the University of Oxford Humanities community discussing conceptualizations of paradise and utopia in different historical and cultural contexts. The exhibition, featuring the work of Oxford-based artist, Saad Qureshi, was curated by Paul Basu, Professor of Anthropology and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, who also interviewed the podcast participants.
