Beschreibung:
Religion for a Secular Age provides a transnational history of modern Vedanta through a comparative study of two of its most important exponents, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) and Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902). This book explains why Vedanta's appeal spanned the ostensibly very different contexts of colonial India and Victorian Britain and America, and how this ancient form of thought was translated by Muller and Vivekananda into a modern form of philosophy or religion.
Preface; Introduction; Foundations; The Science of Religion and Religion as Science; Vedanta in Defence of religion; Vedanta and the Religious Foundation of Ethics; Ramakrishna, Vedanta and the Essence of Hinduism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.