02-02-2005, 12:39 AM
Rajiv Malhotra post on Sulekha regarding the current binge of chamchagiri in NY Times..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NEW YORK TIMES AND THE UCHICAGO CARTEL:</b>
To uncover the long reach of this cartel and how it placed the <b>recent New York Times article</b>, one starts with Prof. Martin Marty who is one of the most powerful scholars at UChicagoâs Divinity School. (This school produces the largest number of PhDs on Hinduism Studies, through its faculty which includes Wendy Doniger.)
Martin Marty now runs the powerful institute of religion at UChicago named after him.
(See: http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/about/index.shtml )
It says, âThe Martin Marty Center is the institute for advanced research in all fields of the study of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.â
Who is Martin Marty and how does he fit into the Chicago Cartel? He is described on his own web page as <b><i>âan ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.â </i></b> See: http://www.elca.org/about.html about this church.) On the question, âIs the Bible the inerrant word of God,â they explain clearly that they are what I would classify as History-Centric and literal. See: http://www.elca.org/questions/Results.asp?recid=16 . They believe that Christ is coming back to raise people from the dead. Furthermore, they assert, âTheories of reincarnation are the antithesis of Lutheran theology.â It is proudly a very âmembership orientedâ institution in every sense of that term, with a vast third world franchise to convert people.
His bio boasts that he was the senior editor of the magazine, <b>âThe Christian Century.â</b> See more about this Christian-centric magazine: http://www.christiancentury.org/ He is described as the nationâs most prominent authors in the field of History of Religions. Along with Wendy Doniger and a few other colleagues, he has helped trained and get influential jobs for a whole generation of scholars and college teachers who now represent Hinduismâs portrayals.
Wendy Doniger and Martin Marty are part of the old boys/girls network and go way back. There is nothing wrong with them being very tight and standing up for each other. See both of these cartel big wigs featured at the Martin Marty Centerâs web site:
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/about/index.shtml
It is only natural that Wendy Doniger is putting her cartel to good use in this PR campaign to demonize Hindus and anyone who criticizes her. However, it is interesting to notice how blatantly these Christian fundamentalists are respected in the âsecularâ academy/media, because they tend to be well groomed, polished, articulate, with good pedigrees, and most of all, with a good network of contacts (read âcartelâ membership).
Such fundamentalist Christians are the âexpertâ sources used by media to call us âHindu Fundamentalistsâ! All evidence of their conflicts of interest, such as their churchesâ aggressive proselytizing against Hindus in India, get airbrushed away as a sort of denial by the media and by the scholars who fail to highlight these conflicts when featuring their writings.
The following sequence of events is interesting to track:
1) First Marty Martin wrote a one-sided article in Beliefnet to hit at Wendy Donigerâs critics, titled, âScholars of Hinduism under attackâ. See: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/128/story_12899_1.html In typical Biblical style of martyrdom, it positions the âgoodâ side as âvictimsâ of the âbadâ side.
2) But this got largely neutralized when others such as Sankrant Sanu wrote rejoinders on the same portal. See Sankrantâs rejoinder at: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/146/story_14684_1.html
3) <b>Now let us we come to the cartelâs links with New York Times. Edward Rothstein is co-author with Martin Marty in their OUP book.</b> See:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subj...a&ci=0195144619
4) Naturally, as co-authors it would be natural for them to be close and help each other, and to participate in each otherâs networks. So Edward Rothstein wrote the recent New York Times article in which he headlines Wendy Donigerâs critics as âHindu Puritansâ. He goes on to brand those who oppose her as âHindu fundamentalistsâ and so forth. Many persons have called the article things like âoutright stupid and incompetent journalismâ, âinsulting to Hindus,â etc. The journalist failed to even contact those he criticized for an interview, presumably out of fear that the truth disclosed might work against his agenda.
<b>Do the higher ups at the Times even know what these hidden links and potential conflicts of interest are? How well-educated are they on the complex dynamics of our Hindu minorityâs American situation? One wonders why the standards of journalism that even my son's undergraduate class at NYU learns were allowed to drop in the case of this article. What strings were pulled and for what considerations?</b>
So please stop being naïve about âeducatingâ these cartel folks, etc. They are intellectually and politically armed and dangerous.
Regards,
Rajiv <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NEW YORK TIMES AND THE UCHICAGO CARTEL:</b>
To uncover the long reach of this cartel and how it placed the <b>recent New York Times article</b>, one starts with Prof. Martin Marty who is one of the most powerful scholars at UChicagoâs Divinity School. (This school produces the largest number of PhDs on Hinduism Studies, through its faculty which includes Wendy Doniger.)
Martin Marty now runs the powerful institute of religion at UChicago named after him.
(See: http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/about/index.shtml )
It says, âThe Martin Marty Center is the institute for advanced research in all fields of the study of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.â
Who is Martin Marty and how does he fit into the Chicago Cartel? He is described on his own web page as <b><i>âan ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.â </i></b> See: http://www.elca.org/about.html about this church.) On the question, âIs the Bible the inerrant word of God,â they explain clearly that they are what I would classify as History-Centric and literal. See: http://www.elca.org/questions/Results.asp?recid=16 . They believe that Christ is coming back to raise people from the dead. Furthermore, they assert, âTheories of reincarnation are the antithesis of Lutheran theology.â It is proudly a very âmembership orientedâ institution in every sense of that term, with a vast third world franchise to convert people.
His bio boasts that he was the senior editor of the magazine, <b>âThe Christian Century.â</b> See more about this Christian-centric magazine: http://www.christiancentury.org/ He is described as the nationâs most prominent authors in the field of History of Religions. Along with Wendy Doniger and a few other colleagues, he has helped trained and get influential jobs for a whole generation of scholars and college teachers who now represent Hinduismâs portrayals.
Wendy Doniger and Martin Marty are part of the old boys/girls network and go way back. There is nothing wrong with them being very tight and standing up for each other. See both of these cartel big wigs featured at the Martin Marty Centerâs web site:
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/about/index.shtml
It is only natural that Wendy Doniger is putting her cartel to good use in this PR campaign to demonize Hindus and anyone who criticizes her. However, it is interesting to notice how blatantly these Christian fundamentalists are respected in the âsecularâ academy/media, because they tend to be well groomed, polished, articulate, with good pedigrees, and most of all, with a good network of contacts (read âcartelâ membership).
Such fundamentalist Christians are the âexpertâ sources used by media to call us âHindu Fundamentalistsâ! All evidence of their conflicts of interest, such as their churchesâ aggressive proselytizing against Hindus in India, get airbrushed away as a sort of denial by the media and by the scholars who fail to highlight these conflicts when featuring their writings.
The following sequence of events is interesting to track:
1) First Marty Martin wrote a one-sided article in Beliefnet to hit at Wendy Donigerâs critics, titled, âScholars of Hinduism under attackâ. See: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/128/story_12899_1.html In typical Biblical style of martyrdom, it positions the âgoodâ side as âvictimsâ of the âbadâ side.
2) But this got largely neutralized when others such as Sankrant Sanu wrote rejoinders on the same portal. See Sankrantâs rejoinder at: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/146/story_14684_1.html
3) <b>Now let us we come to the cartelâs links with New York Times. Edward Rothstein is co-author with Martin Marty in their OUP book.</b> See:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subj...a&ci=0195144619
4) Naturally, as co-authors it would be natural for them to be close and help each other, and to participate in each otherâs networks. So Edward Rothstein wrote the recent New York Times article in which he headlines Wendy Donigerâs critics as âHindu Puritansâ. He goes on to brand those who oppose her as âHindu fundamentalistsâ and so forth. Many persons have called the article things like âoutright stupid and incompetent journalismâ, âinsulting to Hindus,â etc. The journalist failed to even contact those he criticized for an interview, presumably out of fear that the truth disclosed might work against his agenda.
<b>Do the higher ups at the Times even know what these hidden links and potential conflicts of interest are? How well-educated are they on the complex dynamics of our Hindu minorityâs American situation? One wonders why the standards of journalism that even my son's undergraduate class at NYU learns were allowed to drop in the case of this article. What strings were pulled and for what considerations?</b>
So please stop being naïve about âeducatingâ these cartel folks, etc. They are intellectually and politically armed and dangerous.
Regards,
Rajiv <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->