Aditi Banerjee

Aditi Banerjee is a practicing attorney from New York, United States. She is American citizen of Indian origin. She is co-author and editor of Invading The Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America. Her other published works include Hindu-Americans: An emerging identity in an increasingly hyphenated world - which is included in The Columbia documentary history of religion in America since 1945, it is described as an attempt to understand how to connect two worlds, Hinduism (a highly individualistic religion) in America (a highly individualistic society). The same essay is quoted in Children and childhood in American religions, in which she writes about a childhood where the bonds between other Indians were those of being brown in a white world, of being expected to excel in math and science, of facing questions like 'Do you speak Indian?', the bond was of being "foreigners born in this country, a shared experience of alienation. Her essays have been published by Outlook. In 2009, she criticised Wendy Doniger for grossly misquoting the text of Valmiki Ramayana.

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• Aditi banerjee at the book launch of invading the sacred
• Aditi banerjee
• Education
• Hindu American identity
• References