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Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism

Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism

Sharma, Jyotirmaya

Hardcover

Religious BiographiesHinduismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0300197403
ISBN13: 9780300197402
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Aug 27 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.05
Language: English
In this third installment of his comprehensive history of India's religion and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. Sharma's work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as Hinduism and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national self-image. The author examines questions of caste and the primacy of the West in Vivekananda's vision, as well as the systematic marginalization of alternate religions and heterodox beliefs. In doing so, Professor Sharma provides readers with an incisive entryway into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indian history and the rise of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement. Sharma's illuminating narrative is an excellent reexamination of one of India's most controversial religious figures and a fascinating study of the symbiosis of Indian history, religion, politics, and national identity. It is an essential story for anyone interested in the evolution of one of the world's great religions and its role in shaping contemporary India.

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