Antony Copley is Reader in Modern History at Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of The Political Career of C. Rajagopalachari 1937-1954: A Moralist in Politics; C. Rajagopalachari: Gandhi's Southern Commander; Gandhi: Against the Tide; and Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India.
About the Book:
This volume brings together essays on the new religious reform movements of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The essays cover the Brahmo Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission, the Arya Samaj, the Ahmadiya movement, the Theosophical Society and Aurobindo Ghose. The focus is on the remarkable religious and spiritual personalities who inspired new ways of thinking about religion and spirituality; their relationships to social and political change; and their profoundly inward and mystical approach to the religious life.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars of modern India, religious movements and reforms, and cultural history.
| Contributors | ix | |
| Editorial Preface Antony Copley | xi | |
| A Study in Religious Leadership and Cultism Antony Copley | 3 | |
| Educating Women, Educating a Daughter: Babu | ||
| Navincandra Rai, Lakshmi-Sarasvati Samvad(1869), | ||
| and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani Ulrike Stark | 33 | |
| Swami Akhandananda's Sevavrata (Vow of Service) and | ||
| the Earliest Expressions of Service of Humanity in | ||
| the Ramakrishna Math and Mission Gwilym Beckerlegge | 59 | |
| The Ramakrishna Mission: Its Female Aspect Hiltrud Rustau | 83 | |
| 'Kindly Elders of the Hindu Biradri': The Arya Samaj's | ||
| Struggle for Influence and its Effect on Hindu-Muslim | ||
| Relations, 1880-1925 Harald Fischer-Tine | 107 | |
| 'Duties of Ahmadi Women': Educative Processes in the Early | ||
| Stages of the Ahmadiyya Movement Avril A. Powell | 128 | |
| Theosophy as a Political Movement Mark Bevir | 159 | |
| Thinking Culture through Counter-culture: The Case of | ||
| Theosophists in India and Ceylon and their Ideas on | ||
| Race and Hierarchy (1875-1947) Carla Risseuw | 180 | |
| 'The Error of All "Churches" ': Religion and Spirituality in | ||
| Communities Founded or 'Inspired' by Sri Aurobindo Peter Heehs | 209 | |
| Index | 225 | |
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Antony Copley is Reader in Modern History at Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of The Political Career of C. Rajagopalachari 1937-1954: A Moralist in Politics; C. Rajagopalachari: Gandhi's Southern Commander; Gandhi: Against the Tide; and Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India.
About the Book:
This volume brings together essays on the new religious reform movements of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The essays cover the Brahmo Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission, the Arya Samaj, the Ahmadiya movement, the Theosophical Society and Aurobindo Ghose. The focus is on the remarkable religious and spiritual personalities who inspired new ways of thinking about religion and spirituality; their relationships to social and political change; and their profoundly inward and mystical approach to the religious life.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars of modern India, religious movements and reforms, and cultural history.
| Contributors | ix | |
| Editorial Preface Antony Copley | xi | |
| A Study in Religious Leadership and Cultism Antony Copley | 3 | |
| Educating Women, Educating a Daughter: Babu | ||
| Navincandra Rai, Lakshmi-Sarasvati Samvad(1869), | ||
| and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani Ulrike Stark | 33 | |
| Swami Akhandananda's Sevavrata (Vow of Service) and | ||
| the Earliest Expressions of Service of Humanity in | ||
| the Ramakrishna Math and Mission Gwilym Beckerlegge | 59 | |
| The Ramakrishna Mission: Its Female Aspect Hiltrud Rustau | 83 | |
| 'Kindly Elders of the Hindu Biradri': The Arya Samaj's | ||
| Struggle for Influence and its Effect on Hindu-Muslim | ||
| Relations, 1880-1925 Harald Fischer-Tine | 107 | |
| 'Duties of Ahmadi Women': Educative Processes in the Early | ||
| Stages of the Ahmadiyya Movement Avril A. Powell | 128 | |
| Theosophy as a Political Movement Mark Bevir | 159 | |
| Thinking Culture through Counter-culture: The Case of | ||
| Theosophists in India and Ceylon and their Ideas on | ||
| Race and Hierarchy (1875-1947) Carla Risseuw | 180 | |
| 'The Error of All "Churches" ': Religion and Spirituality in | ||
| Communities Founded or 'Inspired' by Sri Aurobindo Peter Heehs | 209 | |
| Index | 225 | |
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