Publication details
Svámí Vivékánanda a modernita: Ke kulturním a sociálním podmínkám exportu/importu neohinduismu
| Title in English | Swami Vivekananda and Modernity: On Cultural and Social Conditions of Export/Import of Neohinduism |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Orientalia Antiqua Nova [VII.] |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | modernity;religion;neohinduism;sekularization;literacy;religious change;colonialism;identity |
| Description | The paper treats with cultural and social conditions which made possible that Swami Vivekananda - as a representant of a particular Hindu tradition - could have started the successful mission in the West. Forming of Vivekananda's neo-Vedanta in colonial conditions is first analyzed as a successful strategy to address challenges of modernity imported by the British administration. Main argument is then developed, which states that Vivekananda's mission could be successful precisely due to the fact that he a) dealt successfully with challenges of modernity in colonial conditions and constructed a kind of modern religion suitable to modern middle-class intellectuals, and b) that he exported this "article" particularly in the period in which number of intellectuals in an Atlantic sphere reflected on a "crisis of modernity" and were searching ways how to overcome it. |