Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal: Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism

ISBN-13: 9780367485740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 244 str.

Victor A. Van Bijlert

Opis

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

Spis treści

Preface1 Introducing modernity and Vedantic Hinduism2 Western Modernity and Religious Ethic3 The Beginning of the Hindu Reformation: Rammohun Roy4 The 'Further Reformation' of Hinduism: Debendranath and Keshub5 The Narrator of Militant Modernity: Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)6 Propagating and Fighting: Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo7 Rabindranath Tagore: the reluctant Hindu nationalistConcluding remarksBibliographyIndex

O autorze

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