Research Catalog

Title

Guru to the world : the life and legacy of Vivekananda / Ruth Harris.

Author

Harris, Ruth, 1958-

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.

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Details

Description

1 volume : map; 24 cm

Summary

"Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga and to a tolerant, scientifically minded universalist conception of religion. Ruth Harris explores the many legacies of Vivekananda's thought, including his impact on anticolonial movements and contemporary Hindu nationalism"--

Subjects

• Gurus
• Hindu philosophers
• Vivekananda, Swami, 1863-1902
• History
• 1800-1899
• India
• Political and social views
• Hindu philosophy
• Civilization, Western > Hindu influences
• RELIGION / General
• Hindu philosophers > History > 19th century
• Gurus > India > History > 19th century
• Vivekananda, Swami, 1863-1902 > Political and social views

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part One: India -- Earliest Days -- Ramakrishna -- Ramakrishna and Vivekananda -- Vivekananda and His Travels -- Part Two: The West -- The World Parliament -- Women East and West -- Magic, Science, Transcendence -- Green Acre, William James, and Raja-Yoga -- Female Devotees and the Labors of the Guru -- Love in America -- Love in Great Britain -- Part Three: India and the World -- Vivekananda Returns -- The Clinch -- Education, Divine Play, and the Nation -- Femininity, the National Idea, and Politics -- Malign Influences and Harrowing Deaths

ISBN

• 9780674247475
• 0674247477

LCCN

2022006018

OCLC

• on1295243495
• SCSB-14336604

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library