Interpreting Ramakrishna

Tyagananda, Swami [u.a.]:
Interpreting Ramakrishna : Kāli's Child revisited / Swami Tyagananda ; Pravrajika Vrajaprana. With a foreword by Huston Smith. - Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2010. - xxii, 410 S.
ISBN 81-208-3499-2 / 978-81-208-3499-6
Rs. 995,00
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Beschreibung
The Indian mystic Ramakrishna (1836-1886) profoundly influenced not only Hinduism in India but also Western interpretations of Hinduism. Ramakrishna has played a critical role in India's religious revival and the growing influence of Hinduism in the West. While he has generally been viewed in the past century as an exemplar who taught inter religious harmony and individual spiritual striving, this view was shaken with the publication of Kali's child, with its provocative assertions of Ramakrishna's alleged "troubled" past and homoerotic proclivities. Was Ramakrishna a troubled mystic and homoerotic Tantrik, whose secrets have been hidden from public view? Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited offers both a spirited critique of Kali's Child as well as an in-depth examination of Ramakrishna scholarship over the course of the past century, identifying how Ramakrishna has been viewed according to the changing tenor of the times. Providing a thoughtful examination of the problematic inherent in translation and interpretation, Interpreting Ramakrishna offers readers a new model for interpreting historical religious figures that is consistent with rigorous scholarship while maintaining its roots in indigenous paradigms. Interpreting Ramakrishna is, according to Harvard professor Francis X. Clooney, "the best resource we have for understanding Sri Ramakrishna today." [Verlagsinformation]

Das vorliegende Werk richtet sich gegen: Kripal, Jeffrey J.: Kālī's Child : The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna / Jeffrey J. Kripal ; with a foreword by Wendy Doniger. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995. - ISBN 0-226-45376-6. - 2nd ed.: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. - ISBN 0-226-45377-4 (siehe University of Chicago Press).

Eine ältere Fassung von Swami Tyaganandas Replik ist Online verfügbar (PDF-Format, ca. 500 kB).

Vergleiche auch Jeffrey Kripals Verteidigung unter http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kalischi/.

Autoren
SWAMI TYAGANANDA is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and presently the head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston. Homepage.
PRAVRAJIKA VRAJAPRANA is a nun of Sarada Convent, Santa Barbara at the Vedanta Society of Southern California.

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