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Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta1
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This paper problematizes the prevalent model of studying the “Neo-Vedānta” of Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) principally in terms of an influx of Western ideas and nationalism. In particular, I demonstrate how scholarly constructions of “Neo-Vedānta” consistently appeal to a high culture, staticized understanding of “traditional” Advaita Vedānta as the alterity for locating Vivekananda’s “neo” or new teachings. In doing so, such studies ignore the diverse medieval and early modern developments in advaitic and Advaita Vedāntic traditions which were well-known to Vivekananda and other “Neo-Vedāntins”. Redressing this discursive imbalance, I propose that close attention to the way in which Swami Vivekananda drew from Indic texts opens up a wider frame for understanding the swami and the genealogy of his cosmopolitan theology.
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“More recently, however, the ideas that the British invented Hinduism, that the emergence of modern forms of Hindu thought involved a complete rupture with the Hindu past, and that neo-Vedanta was therefore somehow 'inauthentic,' have all been challenged (Pennington 2005; Nicholson 2010; Madaio 2017).”
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- Madaio, J.
- Affiliations
- Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, Prague 18208, Czech Republic
- Venue
- Religions
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2017-05-24
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 101
- ISSN
- 2077-1444
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 26
- Language
- en
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