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T. G. Skorokhodova
The Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
phenomenon and the formation
of neo-Hinduism in Bengal
// History magazine - researches.
2014. № 3.
P. 313-323.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65800
T. G. Skorokhodova The Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
phenomenon and the formation
of neo-Hinduism in Bengal
Abstract:
The article presents the Bengali prophet Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836–1886) as a phenomenon of a
religiously gifted personality, which from his faith and unique mystical experience came to found a particularly heterodox
and contemporary reinterpretation of Hinduism. The phenomenon of Ramakrishna is accordingly placed in its context of
the transformation of the traditional society in colonial India, and in the peripheries – Bengal, where existed for centuries
an heterodox interpretation of dharma and thus concurrently formed a space of dialogue between the West and India in
Calcutta. The research is based on the hermeneutical analysis method of the sayings of and conversations with Ramakrishna
in a general cultural context of the intellectual pursuits during the period of the Bengal Renaissance. The article
shows that the image of Hinduism as a religion by Ramakrishna, leading all followers on different paths towards the single
God, reconciles orthodox and heterodox, Brahmanic and “popular” beliefs and becomes the basis for the development of neo-
Hinduism as a way of thinking and a religious practice at the turn of the XXth century.
Keywords:
history of neo-Hinduism, image of Hinduism, the Bengal Renaissance, traditional prophet, Vaishnavism, religious experience, heterodoxy, paths towards God, Jnana, Karma, Bhakti, religious ethics.
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