Smart / Purnananda Prophet of a New Hindu Age

The Life and Times of Acharya Pranavananda
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-80106-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: British in India

This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century. The story of his life has to some extent been eclipsed by the struggle for Indian independence, but his extraordinary personal qualities, his determined asceticism, his high ideals of social service and commitment to Hindu solidarity all serve to set him apart from his contemporaries and entitle him to be better known by political and religious historians of the period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smart, Ninian

Purnananda, Swami

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Childhood of a Yogi 2. Early Struggles and Schooldays 3. Spiritual Emancipation 4. Early Life at the Ashram 5. The Creation of the Sangha 6. The Holy Places 7. Hindu Unity and the Dharma State 8. The Dimensions of the Acharya’s Faith 9. Last Days and Retrospect