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Religious revivalism as nationalist discourse : Swami Vivekananda and new Hinduism in nineteenth century Bengal
- Title
- Religious revivalism as nationalist discourse : Swami Vivekananda and new Hinduism in nineteenth century Bengal / Shamita Basu.
- Author
- Basu, Shamita.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xi, 213 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book is the first to study the Swami's life, teachings, and writings in the light of recent social theories. Vivekananda's thinking is critically examined as a nationalist text and not merely as a discourse on Hindu religion. The author compares the Swami's ideas with the political beliefs of other contemporary public intellectuals. She examines the ways in which Vivekananda's neo-Hinduism emerged as a powerful ideology of Hindu nationalism, combining the European Enlightenment ideals of modernity and rationalism with the Hindu doctrine of Advaita Vedanta."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213).
- Contents
- Religion and nationalism in nineteenth-century Bengal -- Religion as history : Vivekananda and the nationalist construction of the Hindu past -- The universalization of Hinduism and the construction of the nation -- Democracy and nationalist religion : Vivekananda and the corporatist construction of Hinduism -- Reconciling reason with ritual : neo-Hinduism and the nationalist project of mediation -- The metastatis of enlightenment : the place of science, ethics, and philosophy in neo-Hinduism.
- ISBN
- 0195653718
- 9780195653717
- LCCN
- 2002285552
- OCLC
- ocm49514713
- 49514713
- SCSB-1247868
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library