Rethinking Neo-Vedānta. Swami Vivekananda and the selective historiography of Advaita Vedānta
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/6/101" target="_blank" >http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/6/101</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel8060101" target="_blank" >10.3390/rel8060101</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rethinking Neo-Vedānta. Swami Vivekananda and the selective historiography of Advaita Vedānta
Original language description
This paper problematizes the prevalent model of studying the “Neo-Vedānta” of Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) principally in terms of an influx of Western ideas and nationalism. In particular, I demonstrate how scholarly constructions of “Neo-Vedānta” consistently appeal to a high culture, staticized understanding of “traditional” Advaita Vedānta as the alterity for locating Vivekananda’s “neo” or new teachings. In doing so, such studies ignore the diverse medieval and early modern developments in advaitic and Advaita Vedāntic traditions which were well-known to Vivekananda and other “Neo-Vedāntins”. Redressing this discursive imbalance, I propose that close attention to the way in which Swami Vivekananda drew from Indic texts opens up a wider frame for understanding the swami and the genealogy of his cosmopolitan theology.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Religions
ISSN
2077-1444
e-ISSN
2077-1444
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
101
UT code for WoS article
000407232300002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85020480554