The Ramakrishna Mission: The Making of a Modern Hindu Movement |
 | Author: Gwilym Beckerlegge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1464441
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 236
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0195651332
Dewey Decimal Number: 954
EAN: 9780195651331
Publication Date: January 25, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This critical study of the Ramakrishna Movement traces the movement from its initial development up to the present. It features discussions of personalities other than Ramakrishna and Vivekananda who made important contributions.
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Customer Reviews:
Careful study July 3, 2001
Per Kistler (Zurich, Switzerland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book contains several independent chapters about certain aspects of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement. There are standard topics like the continuity of the teaching from Ramakrishna to Vivekananda and several non standard ones like the ten year law suit where the movement tried to show it was not Hindu but a religious minority. The author excels in carefully presenting the issues without own judgement but still presenting the needed details for the reader to judge for himself, and he also outperforms other writers by a subtle way of arguing, where a statement is considered from different view points before hinting at possible conclusions. The book may be especially interesting to people who would like to find a more analytic approach to the history of that movement without reading either propaganda or debunking about it. It has to be said, that the book assumes a certain familiarity with the movement to be fully comprehensible.
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