Robert Priddy

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Robert Priddy
Born: 1936
United Kingdom
Occupation: Author
Nationality: British
Writing period: Contemporary
Genres: non-fiction, biography
Subjects: Sathya Sai Baba
Website: Author's Homepage

Robert Priddy (born 1936) is the British author of the book Source of the Dream - My Way to Sathya Sai Baba, a book about the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba. Priddy wrote many articles from 1988 to 1998, in Sanathana Sarathi, the official magazine of the Sathya Sai Organization[1].

He researched and taught philosophy and sociology at the University of Oslo 1968–1985. While at the University of Oslo, Priddy translated an academic paper by Hjalmar Hegge from the original Norwegian.[2]

In 2000, after resigning as an official in the Sathya Sai Organisation[3], Priddy wrote End of the Dream: The Sathya Sai Baba Enigma (published in India by Basava Premanand), a work critical of Sathya Sai Baba. He maintains critical websites[4] on Sathya Sai Baba, and occasionally contributes to Indymedia releases.[5]

Priddy is now retired.

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[edit] Work cited by other researchers

Sociological research

His work, Objectivity and the Study of Human Society, was cited in Sociologiska teorier[6]. Priddy's sociological research was cited in 'Sosiologisk Årbok[7].

On Sathya Sai Baba

Priddy's work is cited in the book In Search of Sai Divine[8], as well as in Tread Softly: Sathya Sai Baba's Teachings on Nature and the Environment[9], and in Kevin Shepherd's 2005 work: Investigating the Sai Baba Movement [10].

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Selected bibliography by Priddy

[edit] Books on Sathya Sai Baba

  • Source of the Dream: My Way to Sathya Sai Baba, Samuel Weiser, 1998 (301 pages), ISBN 1578630282.
  • Fonte de Sonho, Madras, 2000, ISBN 85-7374-438 3
  • End of the Dream: the Sathya Sai Baba Enigma. Collected Articles of Robert Priddy. Podanur, Tamilnadu: Premanand, B., 2004, 594 pages; Series: Skeptic book club no 19.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Academic works

  • Objectivity and the Study of Human Society: thesis dealing with the epistemological problems of the main social sciences. Oslo University 1968 (133 pages)
  • Behaviour, Intention & Meaning — Study of Research Principles on Meaningful Human Behaviour. Institute of Social Research, Oslo 1969 (62 pages )
  • Forskningsorienteringer i Norsk Samfunnsvitenskap (Research Orientations in Norwegian Social Science): conclusions of a research project in the sociology of knowledge into Norwegian social research during the 1960s. Institute of Sociology. University Of Oslo, 1972 (20 pages )
  • Communication & Understanding: textbook in semantical and logical analysis and the philosophy of science. Oslo University 1982 New Eds. 1983, 1985. (216 pages)
  • Empirisme og byråkrati Hovedtendenser Hovedtendenser i norsk samfunnsforskning i 60-årene. Yearbook of Sociology pp 11–34. (Sosiologisk Årbok 2000.1) ISSN 0808-288X.

[edit] About Priddy

  • Shepherd, Kevin R.D. Investigating the Sai Baba Movement: A Clarification of Misrepresented Saints and Opportunism (2005) ISBN 0-9525089-3-1 (discusses his writings critical of Sathya Sai Baba)

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sanatana Sarathi, the official magazine of the Sathya Sai Organization, Registrar of Newspapers R. NO. 10774/58. indices online
    March 1988, pp 63ff; Sept. 1988, pp 246ff; Oct. 1988, pp 269ff; Jan. 1989, p. 17ff; Feb. 1989, p. 45ff; June 1989, p. 147ff; Oct. 1989, p. 269ff; Jan. 1990, p. 17ff;May 1990, pp 129ff; Sept. 1990, pp 248ff; Feb. 1991, pp 43ff; Apr, 1991, pp 101ff; July 1991, pp 189ff; June 1993, pp 165ff; May 1994, pp 129ff; Apr. 1994, pp 103ff; July 1994, pp 186ff; Sept. 1994, pp 234ff; March 1995, pp 75ff; Nov. 1995, pp 24ff; May 1996, pp 134ff; July 1997, pp 184ff; July 1998, pp 182ff
  2. ^ Transcending Darwinism in the Spirit of Goethe's Science: A Philosophical Perspective on the Works of Adolf Portmann, Newsletter of the Society for the Evolution of Science (Summer 1996 issue, Vol. 12, No 2, pp 1–26)
  3. ^ Europe 1 Region III - Activities of the Sathya Sai Organisation in 16 Countries (Norway page is p. 44) ISBN 90-72308-10-7 , brochure, online
  4. ^ "Sathya Sai Baba Avatar - Extensive Information and Viewpoints", Robert Priddy, Web site, retrieved 21 January 2007.
  5. ^ Indian President Kalam Attends 81st Birthday Celebration of Sathya Sai Baba, Robert Priddy, Indymedia, December 12, 2006.
  6. ^ Sociologiska teorier, Johan Asplund, ed., Stockholm, 1967, ISBN 91-20-02381-2
  7. ^ Sosiologisk Årbok, 2000.1, "Kritikkens fenomenologi" p. 274, Professor Per Otnes, online, ISSN 0808-288X.
  8. ^ In Search of Sai Divine, S.P. Ruhela, Page 179., M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 817533021X
  9. ^ Tread Softly: Sathya Sai Baba's Teachings on Nature and the Environment, p. 197. Oak Savanna Publishing, ISBN 0974866814, Tina K. Schweickert.
  10. ^ Shepherd, Kevin R.D. Investigating the Sai Baba Movement: A Clarification of Misrepresented Saints and Opportunism (2005) ISBN 0-9525089-3-1 (discusses his writings critical of Sathya Sai Baba)
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