Inaugural Indian Ministry of Tradition Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professor lecture
April 8, 2014
“Making Hinduism a ‘World Faith’: Earlier than and After Swami Vivekananda”
Sir Christopher A. Bayly
Indian Ministry of Tradition Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professor, College of Chicago
Emeritus Professor of Imperial and Naval Historical past
College of Cambridge
The time period ‘world faith’ derives from Max Weber, and by implication from Hegel, however each these thinkers denied this standing to Hinduism itself, seeing it respectively as a ‘dream faith’ and ‘different wordly’. This lecture seeks to indicate, nonetheless, that Hindu public figures, a minimum of from the early colonial interval onward, sought to make Hinduism a religion that was recognised within the wider world and likewise labored inside Indian society via training, missionising and social work. Key figures right here had been Rammohan Roy and Keshub Chandra Sen within the 19th century. Vivekananda developed this theme additional together with his look on the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 and basis of the Ramakrishna Mission
Sir Christopher A. Bayly of Cambridge College is the inaugural Indian Ministry of Tradition Vivekananda Visiting Professor, and will likely be a part of the school for Spring Quarter 2014 and 2015. The Vivekananda Visiting Professorship was established to commemorate the legacy of the Hindu religious chief Swami Vivekananda and to complement the College’s famend program for the research of the Indian subcontinent.
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