Swami Vivekananda

His Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498586047 (ISBN)

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This book re-assesses the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion in a time of global dislocations and inequities. Due to the complexity of Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of a new era, few works offer a nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision and legacy.

With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary, multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision and legacy in the way that this volume does. It brings together North American, European, British, and Indian scholars associated with a broad array of humanistic disciplines towards critical-constructive, contextually-sensitive reflections on one of the most important thinkers and theologians of the modern era.

Rita D. Sherma is founding director and associate professor at the Shingal Center for Dharma Studies and Core Doctoral Faculty at Graduate Theological Union.

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Vivekananda’s Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics: An Introduction

Rita D. Sherma

PART I: VIVEKANANDA IN RELATION TO HINDU PHILOSOPHIES & MAJOR THINKERS

Swami Vivekananda and Adi Sa?karacarya: Similarities and DifferencesT. S. Rukmani

Swami Vivekananda’s Interpretation of Brahmasutra 1.1.19 as a Hermeneutic Basis for Samanvayi VedantaAyon Maharaj

Ku??alini Yoga in the Spirituality of Swami Vivekananda and in Modern Yoga Michael Stoeber

Vivekananda in the History of Vedanta: Continuities and ContradictionsAndrew J. Nicholson

Flavors of Advaita in Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sri Aurobindo Debashish Banerji

PART II: A LEGACY OF SERVICE

Vivekananda and his Organizational Legacy with Particular Reference to Seva within the Ramakrishna MovementGwilym Beckerlegge

“This Prema Dwells in the Heart of Them All:” Swami Vivekananda on Love and CompassionKusumita Pedersen

Swami Vivekananda’s Legacy of Service: A Critical AssessmentShrinivas Tilak

“Perfect Independence”: Swami Vivekananda, Women and Freedom Pravrajika Vrajaprana

PART III: REVISITING APPRAISALS OF VIVEKANANDA

Complementarity, not Contradiction: Swami Vivekananda’s Theology of ReligionsJeffery D. Long

Neglected Advaitas: The Genealogy of Swami Vivekananda’s Cosmopolitan Theology James Madaio | Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute

De-subjugating Timeless Vocabularies – Swami Vivekananda as Intellectual Catalyst Kapil Kapoor Swami Vivekananda and Muscular Hinduism Sharada Sugirtharajah

Epilogue

What Is Hinduism? A Reflection on Vivekananda’s Legacy in Relation to the Definition of HinduismArvind Sharma

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
Co-Autor	Rita D. Sherma, T. S. Rukmani, Ayon Maharaj, Michael Stoeber
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-13	9781498586047 / 9781498586047
Zustand	Neuware