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Gurus and their followers : new religious reform movements in colonial India

Title
Gurus and their followers : new religious reform movements in colonial India / edited by Antony Copley.
Publication
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Copley, A. R. H. (Antony R. H.), 1937-2016.
Description
xxii, 235 pages; 22 cm
Summary
This collection looks at the new religious reform movements that swept India in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. One general essay, on religious leadership, provides a context for others on Brahmo Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission, the Arya Samaj, the Ahmadiya movement, and the Theosophical Society.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Gurus > India
  • 11.92 Hinduism
  • Gurus
  • Religion
  • Godsdienstige bewegingen
  • Goeroes (religie)
  • India > Religion > 20th century
  • India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Study in religious leadership and cultism / Antony Copley -- Educating women, educating a daughter : Babu Navincandra Rai, Lakṣmī-Sarasvatī Samvād (1869), and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani / Ulrike Stark -- Swami Akhandananda's Sevavrata (vow of service) and the earliest expressions of service to humanity in the Ramakrishna math and mission / Gwilym Beckerlegge -- Ramakrishna mission : its female aspect / Hiltrud Rüstau -- 'Kindly elders of the Hindu biradri' : the Ārya Samāj's struggle for influence and its effect on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1880-1925 / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- 'Duties of Ahmadi women' : educative processes in the early stages of the Ahmadiyya movement / Avril A. Powell -- Theosophy as a political movement / Mark Bevir -- Thinking culture through counter-culture : the case of theosophists in India and Ceylon and their ideas on race and hierarchy (1875-1947) / Carla Risseuw -- 'Error of all "churches"' : religion and spirituality in communities founded or 'inspired' by Sri Aurobindo / Peter Heehs.
ISBN
  • 0195649583
  • 9780195649581
LCCN
99952531
OCLC
  • ocm44059256
  • 44059256
  • SCSB-1035365
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library