Victor A. van Bijlert

Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Religion
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780367485740
• ISBN-10: 0367485745
• Artikelnr.: 60039622

Autorenporträt

Victor A. van Bijlert is Lecturer in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Introducing modernity and Vedantic Hinduism
2 Western Modernity and Religious Ethic
3 The Beginning of the Hindu Reformation: Rammohun Roy
4 The 'Further Reformation' of Hinduism: Debendranath and Keshub
5 The Narrator of Militant Modernity: Bankimchandra Chatterjee
6 Propagating and Fighting: Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo
7 Rabindranath Tagore: the reluctant Hindu nationalist
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index

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Preface; 1 Introducing modernity and Vedantic Hinduism; 2 Western Modernity and Religious Ethic; 3 The Beginning of the Hindu Reformation: Rammohun Roy; 4 The 'Further Reformation' of Hinduism: Debendranath and Keshub; 5 The Narrator of Militant Modernity: Bankimchandra Chatterjee; 6 Propagating and Fighting: Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo; 7 Rabindranath Tagore: the reluctant Hindu nationalist; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index