Crisis and Religious Renewal in the Brahmo Samaj (1860-1884): A Documentary Study of the 'new Dispensation' Under Keshab Chandra Sen

by Frans L. Damen

This is a scholarly book mainly concerned with the Brahmo Samaj of India, the sect led by Keshab, which separated from the original Brahmo Samaj, led by Devendranath Tagore, in 1866, and with the New Dispensation sect led by Keshab after the split which emerged in the Brahmo Samaj of India in 1878. The author's interest is in the religious life of these groups rather than in their theology, and he comments that the emphasis of previous writing has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9070192128
• ISBN13: 9789070192129
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"