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Kali’s Child – A Search for An Autobiographical Ramakrishna
- Author(s):
- Darshi Arachige (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Anthropology, Philosophy
- Subject(s):
- Anthropology, Philosophy, Religions, South Asia, Hinduism, Tantrism
- Item Type:
- Book review
- Tag(s):
- Religion and Culture, anthropology of religion, Kali, Ramakrishna, Religion in South Asia
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/3php-k973
- Abstract:
- This is a review of the book "Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, Jeffrey J. Kripal, University of Chicago Press, 1995" . “Kali’s child” fell well short of a proof that Sri Ramakrishna’s mystical experiences were actually “profoundly, provocatively, scandalously erotic”. To reconstruct the autobiographical Ramakrishna from the historical Ramakrishna may well be a task logically impossible.
- Notes:
- The reviewer is not a follower of Ramakrishna or Hinduism. Any reference to people, philosophies or religious beliefs are purely scholastic.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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