“The Spirit of the Vedānta”: Occultism and Piety in Max Müller and Swami Vivekananda’s Interpretation of Ramakrishna
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Oxford scholar of Sanskrit, mythology, and religion, Friedrich Max Müller, produced two works on a contemporary religious figure, the Bengali Hindu holy man Sri Ramakrishna. Müller was assisted in the second of these efforts by Ramakrishna’s most influe...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2017
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Numen
Jahr: 2017, Band: 64, Heft: 2/3, Seiten: 229-257 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Ramakrishna 1836-1886
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/ Müller, Friedrich Max 1823-1900
/ Vivekānanda, Svāmī 1863-1902
/ Hinduismus
/ Vedānta
/ Frömmigkeit
/ Theosophie
/ Okkultismus
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen BK Hinduismus, Jainismus, Sikhismus KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Swami Vivekananda
Friedrich Max Müller
Theosophy
Sri Ramakrishna
Vedanta
Hinduism
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| Zusammenfassung: | Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Oxford scholar of Sanskrit, mythology, and religion, Friedrich Max Müller, produced two works on a contemporary religious figure, the Bengali Hindu holy man Sri Ramakrishna. Müller was assisted in the second of these efforts by Ramakrishna’s most influential disciple, Swami Vivekananda, who hoped to make use of Müller’s fame to present his master to a wider audience. Rather than measuring their fidelity or lack thereof to Ramakrishna’s teachings, as previous accounts have done, this article takes as its subject matter the late nineteenth-century ideas of Hinduism, religion, and the occult which emerge from Müller’s and Vivekananda’s efforts to make sense of Ramakrishna with a view to better understanding the concepts and attitudes which made such a collaborative work possible. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Enthält: | In: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341461 |