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With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness,
the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami
Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the
vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global
dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of
Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity
with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary,
multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision
and legacy in the way that this volume does. It brings together
North American, European, British, and Indian scholars associated
with a broad array of humanistic disciplines towards
critical-constructive, contextually-sensitive reflections on one of
the most important thinkers and theologians of the modern era.
Successful aging requires not only internal accommodation to one's
own system of needs but also reasonable conformity to the demands
of one's community. Like the Faustian ancient Indian aspired to
have the full experience of the most diverse possibilities of human
life. The Buddha saw in this thirst the basic cause of suffering.
But Hindus did not dismiss this basic human instinct so easily.
They sought to sample every aspect of human experience (albeit with
restraint imposed by dharma and limited to a particular stage of
life), which allows humans to exhaust them by plumbing their depths
fully.
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