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Religion for a Secular Age Max Müller, Swami Vivekananda and Vedānta
By Thomas J. Green
Copyright 2016
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Religion for a Secular Age provides a transnational history of modern Vedānta through a comparative study of two of its most important exponents, Friedrich Max Muller (1823–1900) and Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902). This book explains why Vedānta's appeal spanned the ostensibly very different contexts of colonial India and Victorian Britain and America, and how this ancient form of thought was... Read more
Preface; Introduction; Foundations; The Science of Religion and Religion as Science; Vedānta in Defence of religion; Vedānta and the Religious Foundation of Ethics; Ramakrishna, Vedānta and the Essence of Hinduism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Thomas J. Green was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge for his doctoral research on Swami Vivekananda and Max Muller. He has also conducted research on the New Dispensation movement in nineteenth-century Calcutta.
’This is a fascinating book that illuminates how Friedrich Max Müller and Swami Vivekananda, two extraordinary intellectuals of the late nineteenth century, have interacted to shape both Western and Indian understandings of religion. Thomas Green’s close reading of their exchanges and further writings is a major contribution to the intellectual history of the imperial encounter. This is necessary and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in Hinduism and Christianity, as well as religion more generally.’ Peter van der Veer, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany 'This is an engaging and well-written book that places Max Müller and Vivekananda in a world of shared concern about religion and science at the close of the nineteenth century. This is an important contribution to our understanding of religion and the rise of secularism.' Gavin Flood, Oxford University, UK
