Guru to the World
Guru to the World

Author: Ruth Harris

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0674247477

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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.

Encyclopedia of Religion
Encyclopedia of Religion

Author: Lindsay Jones

Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13:

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This second edition, which is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. It emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.

Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda
Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda

Author: His Eastern and Western Admirers

Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 8175059141

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Swami Vivekananda’s towering personality influenced innumerable persons in India and abroad in various ways. The impress which his life and character made on those persons who were about him and the recounting of those memories by them, reveal the multiple facets of Swamiji’s magnanimous personality. This book published by Advaita Ashrama, Publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, contains some of those reminiscences which would be not only interesting, but also a revelation to all the admirers of the great Swami. Twenty-two new reminiscences have been added in this edition – Swamis Shivananda, Turiyananda, Saradananda, Akhandananda, Vijnanananda, Achalananda, Atulananda, Virajananda, and Sadananda, as also Brajendranath Seal, C. Ramanujachari, Kumudbandhu Sen, Lillian Montgomery, Mohanlal Shah, Mary Tapan Wright, Sacchindranath Bose, Manmathanath Chowdhury, Harbilas Sarda, G.G. Narasimhachari, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Shailendranath Bandopadhyay and Alice Hansbrough.