The conceptual foundation of missionary Hinduism

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 203-214

  Brekke, Torkel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61049167848     PISSN: 00224227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.00082     Document Type: Article

References (31)

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2. See, for instance, The Laws of Manu, with an introduction and notes, trans. Wendy Doniger with Brian K. Smith (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991), 18-19.
3. Vivekānanda, Svadeśmantra, University Bengali Selections (Calcutta: University of Calcutta, n.d.), 146.
4. See the chapter on Bankimchandra in T. Raychaudhuri, Europe Reconsidered. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988).
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8. Halbfass, 343.
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11. Baṅkim racanāvalī, ed. Śrīyogeś candra Bāgal. Trtīya mudrana (Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad, 1969), 671.
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13. Bankim racanāvalī,673.
14. Bankim racanāvalī, 674.
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17. Raychaudhuri, 104.
18. Baṅkim racanāvalī, 590-91.
19. "[D]harma sukher ekamātra upāya. ihakāle ki parakāle anya upāya nāi." Bankim racanāvalī, 589.
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22. Although Bankimchandra's project is essentially modern I do not think it would be farfetched to look for attempts in pre-modern Indian religious tradition at similar kinds of integration of ontology and ethics. For instance, according to classical Indian systems of anthropology and soteriology which follow the Sāmkhya ontology the essential characeristic of a human being is the radical separation of the soul (purusa, ātman) and the physical body which belongs to the natural world (prakrti). Because this separation is a fact, it should be realized. The realization is salvation. In other words, inherent in the nature of a human being is a norm for action.
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27. Bafikim racanāvatī, 593.
28. J, Rosselli, "Sri Ramakrishna and the Educated Elite of Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal," Contributions to Indian Sociology, n.s., 12 (1978): 202.
29. See, for instance, Vivekānanda, vol. 3, 182.
30. Quoted in S. Gambhirananda, History of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1957), 120.
31. P. Hacker, "Der religiose Nationalismus Vivekānandas," Kleine Schriften, Herasugegeben von L. Schmithausen (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1978), 573.