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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, is a book on the Indian mystic Ramakrishna, published in 1995 by Jeffrey J. Kripal, a scholar of Religious studies. It argues for a homoerotic strain in Ramakrishna's life, rituals, and teachings. The book won the American Academy of Religion's History of Religions Prize for the Best First Book of 1995 and received positive reviews from Western and Hindu critics alike. However it has also been criticised by Ramakrishna's…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, is a book on the Indian mystic Ramakrishna, published in 1995 by Jeffrey J. Kripal, a scholar of Religious studies. It argues for a homoerotic strain in Ramakrishna's life, rituals, and teachings. The book won the American Academy of Religion's History of Religions Prize for the Best First Book of 1995 and received positive reviews from Western and Hindu critics alike. However it has also been criticised by Ramakrishna's followers and several scholars, and became the object of an intense controversy among both Western and Indian audiences. Critics have argued that the book's conclusions were arrived through mistranslation of Bengali, misunderstanding of tantra, and misuse of psychoanalysis