Vedanta for the West

"This important book fills a gap in our knowledge.... Highly recommended." -- Library Journal"... highly recommended... " -- Choice"With admirable clarity and remarkable brevity, Jackson surveys the history of the movement and raises... important issues... " -- The Journal of American HistoryAn important history of the Ramakrishna movement, the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in the United States.

Carl T. Jackson is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, El Paso.

Foreword
Preface
The Nineteenth-Century Background	p. 1
The Founders: Ramakrishna and Vivekananda	p. 16
Trials of Survival: The Organization of an American Movement	p. 48
Vedanta for Americans: The Teachings of the Ramakrishna Movement	p. 67
The Appeals of Vedanta	p. 88
The Movement since the 1920s	p. 108
The Ramakrishna Movement in History: Past, Present, and Future	p. 130
Appendix: Vedanta Centers	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
Bibliographical Essay	p. 170
Index	p. 180
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