Gurus and Their Followers New Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India

by Copley, Antony

• ISBN13: 9780195649581
• ISBN10: 0195649583
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection looks at the new religious reform movements that swept India in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. One general essay, on religious leadership, provides a context for others on Brahmo Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission, the Arya Samaj, the Ahmadiya movement, and the Theosophical Society.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Editorial Preface	xi
Antony Copley
A Synoptic Approach
A Study in Religious Leadership and Cultism	3	(30)
Antony Copley
The Brahmo Samaj
Educating Women, Educating a Daughter: Babu Navincandra Rai, Laksmi-Sarasvati Samvad (1869), and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani	33	(26)
Ulrike Stark
The Ramakrishna Mission
Swami Akhandananda's Sevavrata (Vow of Service) and the Earliest Expressions of Service to Humanity in the Ramakrishna Math and Mission	59	(24)
Gwilym Beckerlegge
The Ramakrishna Mission: Its Female Aspect	83	(24)
Hiltrud Rustau
The Arya Samaj and the Ahmadiyya Movement
`Kindly Elders of the Hindu Biradri': The Arya Samaj's Struggle for Influence and its Effect on Hindu-Muslim Relations, 1880-1925	107	(21)
Harald Fischer-Tine
`Duties of Ahmadi Women': Educative Processes in the Early Stages of the Ahmadiyya Movement	128	(31)
Avril A. Powell
The Theosophical Movement
Theosophy as a Political Movement	159	(21)
Mark Bevir
Thinking Culture through Counter-culture: The Case of Theosophists in India and Ceylon and their Ideas on Race and Hierarchy (1875-1947)	180	(29)
Carla Risseuw
Sri Aurobindo
`The Error of All ``Churches''': Religion and Spirituality in Communities Founded or `Inspired' by Sri Aurobindo	209	(16)
Peter Heehs
Index	225