Brahmo Samaj
brāhmo samājThe reformist, monotheist society founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Calcutta in 1828, drawing on the Upanishads and open to reason.
Where this term appears
- The Colonial Encounter and Orientalism History
Rammohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj, founded in 1828, met the missionary critique by reading the Upanishads as a pure, rational monotheism.
- The Reformers: How the Nineteenth Century Remade Hinduism History
…, the unity and omnipresence of nature's God." In 1828 he founded the Brahmo Samaj , a society for the worship of the one formless God, without images, drawing on the Upanishads and open to reason and to the be…
- What is bhakti? Essentials
Sophia Dobson Collet, writing about the Brahmo Samaj of India in 1873, could already call its first noteworthy phase "what has been called 'the Bhakti movement'", and she made the phrase a section heading in th…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
The movements around Rammohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj, Dayananda Sarasvati's Arya Samaj and, in his way, Vivekananda, promoted a purified Vedic Hinduism and cast Tantra as its dark opposite, the thing respectable…
- The Modern Frame Treatise
Derrett dated it to around 1773 to 1780 and called it a juridical fabrication with reformist motives. The Adi Brahmo Samaj published it in 1876.