Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga and to a tolerant, scientifically minded universalist conception of religion. Ruth Harris explores the many legacies of Vivekananda’s thought, including his impact on anticolonial movements and contemporary Hindu nationalism.

• | Author: Ruth Harris
• | Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 560 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0674247477
• | ISBN-13: 9780674247475