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
Authors

FUJDA Milan

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Orientalia Antiqua Nova [VII.]
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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.

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