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100 1 _aHarris, Ruth,
245 1 0 _aGuru to the world :
_bthe life and legacy of Vivekananda /
_cRuth Harris.
260 _aLondon:
_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2022
300 _a539p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPart One: India -- Earliest Days -- Ramakrishna -- Ramakrishna and Vivekananda -- Vivekananda and His Travels -- Part Two: The West -- The World Parliament -- Women East and West -- Magic, Science, Transcendence -- Green Acre, William James, and Raja-Yoga -- Female Devotees and the Labors of the Guru -- Love in America -- Love in Great Britain -- Part Three: India and the World -- Vivekananda Returns -- The Clinch -- Education, Divine Play, and the Nation -- Femininity, the National Idea, and Politics -- Malign Influences and Harrowing Deaths
520 _a"Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga and to a tolerant, scientifically minded universalist conception of religion. Ruth Harris explores the many legacies of Vivekananda's thought, including his impact on anticolonial movements and contemporary Hindu nationalism"--
650 0 _aGurus
_zIndia
650 0 _aHindu philosophy.
650 0 _aCivilization, Western
650 0 _aHindu philosophers
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