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100 1 $aJackson, Carl T.,$d1934-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80130750
245 10 $aVedanta for the West :$bthe Ramakrishna movement in the United States /$cCarl T. Jackson.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9406
300 $axiv, 185 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
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490 1 $aReligion in North America
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [170]-179) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein -- 1. The Nineteenth-Century Background -- 2. The Founders: Ramakrishna and Vivekananda -- 3. Trials of Survival: The Organization of an American Movement -- 4. Vedanta for Americans: The Teachings of the Ramakrishna Movement -- 5. The Appeals of Vedanta -- 6. The Movement since the 1920s -- 7. The Ramakrishna Movement in History: Past, Present, and Future -- Appendix: Vedanta Centers.
520 $aThe Ramakrishna movement was the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in America. Founded on the teachings of the nineteenth-century Bengali visionary Sri Ramakrishna, the movement was brought to the United States in 1893 by Swami Vivekananda, a disciple of Ramakrishna.
520 8 $aAlthough its membership is small, the movement has exercised a significant influence in the last hundred years, promoting Hindu reform and revival in India and increasing public awareness of Hinduism through its Vedanta societies in the United States and Europe. An important history of the oldest form of Hinduism in America, this book sheds new light on the progress and adaptation of Eastern spirituality in the West.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aCarl T. Jackson begins his account with a brief examination of conditions in nineteenth-century India and the United States that explain the sudden appearance of the Ramakrishna movement in the West. He details the origins and teachings of the movement, Swami Vivekananda's seminal role as founder and organizer of Western "work," and the subsequent history of the American mission. Jackson also discusses the movement's American teachings and explains the attraction of Vedanta for Americans.
520 8 $aAlthough conservative in its presentation of Hinduism, the Ramakrishna movement has freely embraced Western methods. As Jackson shows, it is the "middle way" in American Hinduism, taking a path between devotional forms such as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna) and meditation ones such as the Self-Realization Fellowship and Transcendental Meditation.
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