1st Edition
Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism
By Victor A. van Bijlert
Copyright 2021
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the nineteenth century which contributed to the rise of Vedantic Hindu modernity discourse in India.
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Preface
1 Introducing modernity and Vedantic Hinduism
2 Western Modernity and Religious Ethic
3 The Beginning of the Hindu Reformation: Rammohun Roy
4 The 'Further Reformation' of Hinduism: Debendranath and Keshub
5 The Narrator of Militant Modernity: Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)
6 Propagating and Fighting: Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo
7 Rabindranath Tagore: the reluctant Hindu nationalist
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index
1 Introducing modernity and Vedantic Hinduism
2 Western Modernity and Religious Ethic
3 The Beginning of the Hindu Reformation: Rammohun Roy
4 The 'Further Reformation' of Hinduism: Debendranath and Keshub
5 The Narrator of Militant Modernity: Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)
6 Propagating and Fighting: Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo
7 Rabindranath Tagore: the reluctant Hindu nationalist
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Victor A. van Bijlert is Lecturer in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
