Brian A. Hatcher

Bourgeois Hinduism, or Faith of the Modern Vedantists

Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1839 a group of Hindu elite gathered in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhini Sabha , met weekly to worship and hear discourses from members on ways to promote a rational and morally responsible mode of worship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780199374991
• ISBN-10: 0199374996
• Artikelnr.: 40185604

Autorenporträt

Brian A. Hatcher is Professor and Packard Chair of Theology in the Department of Religion at Tufts University. He is the author of Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal and Eclecticism and Modern Hindu Discourse and the translator of Hindu Widow Marriage by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Transliteration and Primary Sources
Introduction
1. Vedanta according to Rammohan Roy
2. Debendranath Tagore and the Tattvabodhini Sabha
3. New Members and a New Founder
4. Bourgeois Vedanta for the Bhadralok
5. Missionaries and Modern Vedantists
6. The Text of Sabhyadiger vaktra and the Problem of Authorship
7. Who Wrote these Discourses?
8. The Complete English Translation of Sabhadiger vaktra
Appendix 1.
Appendix 2.
appendix 3.