The Ramakrishna Mission: The Making of a Modern Hindu Movement [Hardcover]

Gwilym Beckerlegge (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195651332 | ISBN-13: 978-0195651331 | Publication Date: January 25, 2001

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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Compact ... adds new insights into what is now a very large corpus of scholarship about the construction of the Ramakrishna movement ... richly illustrated. Journal of Contemporary Religion

About the Author

Gwilym Beckerlegge is at The Open University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 236 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195651332
• ISBN-13: 978-0195651331
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,008,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Careful study, July 2, 2001

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This review is from: The Ramakrishna Mission: The Making of a Modern Hindu Movement (Hardcover)

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.