Vedanta for the West The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States [Hardcover]

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With admirable clarity and remarkable brevity, Jackson surveys the history of the movement and raises... important issues... The Journal of American History

An important history of the Ramakrishna movement, the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in the United States.

Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
Preface

1. The Nineteenth-Century Background
2. The Founders: Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
3. Trials of Survival: The Organization of an American Movement
4. Vedanta for Americans: The Teachings of the Ramakrishna Movement
5. The Appeals of Vedanta
6. The Movement since the 1920s
7. The Ramakrishna Movement in History: Past, Present, and Future

Appendix: Vedanta Centers
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Illustrations follow page 36

CARL T. JACKSON is Professor of History and Dean of the college of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, El Paso.