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Book Summary
In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and
reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging
portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary
Ramakrishna. Sharma's work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and
formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as
"Hinduism" and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national
self-image. The author examines questions of caste and the primacy of the West
in Vivekananda's vision, as well as the systematic marginalization of alternate
religions and heterodox beliefs. In doing so, Professor Sharma provides readers
with an incisive entryway into nineteenth- and twentieth-century
ISBN-13
9780300197402
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publishing Date
2013-08-27
Total Pages
328
A Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and
reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging
portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary
Ramakrishna. Sharma's work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and
formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as
"Hinduism" and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national
self-image. The author examines questions of caste and the primacy of the West
in Vivekananda's vision, as well as the systematic marginalization of alternate
religions and heterodox beliefs. In doing so, Professor Sharma provides readers
with an incisive entryway into nineteenth- and twentieth-century