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neo-Vedanta

The modern, reform-era reinterpretation of Vedanta, universalist and partly shaped by Western thought, running from Ram Mohan Roy through Vivekananda.

Where this term appears

  • Vivekananda in Chicago, 1893 History

    …hers have shown, was a particular modern construction, a universalist neo-Vedanta shaped in part by the reformers before him and by Western thought, not a neutral summary of the vast and plural traditions gathe…

  • What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy

    But scholars of the tradition, Paul Hacker and Wilhelm Halbfass among them, have argued that this modern Vedanta, often called Neo-Vedanta, quietly reframed the classical school.

  • What is Vedanta? Philosophy

    The German indologist Paul Hacker coined the term Neo-Vedanta for it, and Wilhelm Halbfass, in India and Europe , traced how deeply the modern presentation was shaped by the encounter with the West even as it c…

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