Vedanta for the West (Record no. 50414)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780253330987
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Distributor Name Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD.
Distributor address ;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002
Bill Number ;1085728
Bill Date ;12/11/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 294.5550 JAC
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Personal name Carl T Jackson
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Vedanta for the West
Remainder of title : the Ramakrishna movement in the United States
Statement of responsibility, etc /Carl T Jackson
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Bloomington
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Indiana University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , ©1994.
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Extent xiv, 185 pages
Dimensions ; 25 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2783
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Series statement Religion in North America.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Foreword / Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein --<br/>1. The Nineteenth-Century Background --<br/>2. The Founders: Ramakrishna and Vivekananda --<br/>3. Trials of Survival: The Organization of an American Movement --<br/>4. Vedanta for Americans: The Teachings of the Ramakrishna Movement --<br/>5. The Appeals of Vedanta --<br/>6. The Movement since the 1920s --<br/>7. The Ramakrishna Movement in History: Past, Present, and Future --<br/>Appendix: Vedanta Centers.
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Summary, etc The Ramakrishna movement was the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in America. Founded on the teachings of the nineteenth-century Bengali visionary Sri Ramakrishna, the movement was brought to the United States in 1893 by Swami Vivekananda, a disciple of Ramakrishna. Although its membership is small, the movement has exercised a significant influence in the last hundred years, promoting Hindu reform and revival in India and increasing public awareness of Hinduism through its Vedanta societies in the United States and Europe. An important history of the oldest form of Hinduism in America, this book sheds new light on the progress and adaptation of Eastern spirituality in the West. Carl T. Jackson begins his account with a brief examination of conditions in nineteenth-century India and the United States that explain the sudden appearance of the Ramakrishna movement in the West. He details the origins and teachings of the movement, Swami Vivekananda's seminal role as founder and organizer of Western "work," and the subsequent history of the American mission. Jackson also discusses the movement's American teachings and explains the attraction of Vedanta for Americans. Although conservative in its presentation of Hinduism, the Ramakrishna movement has freely embraced Western methods. As Jackson shows, it is the "middle way" in American Hinduism, taking a path between devotional forms such as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna) and meditation ones such as the Self-Realization Fellowship and Transcendental Meditation.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Religion
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Genre/form data or focus term Ramakrishna Math -- Missions -- United States -- History.
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Personal name Carl T Jackson
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 22/11/2018 2783.00   294.5550 JAC 25817 22/11/2018 22/11/2018 Books
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