Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal: Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism

ISBN-13: 9780367540265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 252 str.

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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