The Journal of the American Oriental Society, July 1st, 1997
Westerners have been interested in Ramakrishna (1836-86) since his best-known follower and founder of the Ramakrishna Movement, Swami Vivekananda, represented Hinduism at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Most of the interest, however, has been shown by people who were personally affected by the man or his message, and the studies they produced were hagiographical in nature, rather than critical academic work. Yet even these sympathetic and uncritical studies revealed a very strange figure, one worldly enough to reject the path of complete renunciation (sannyasa) yet oth...
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