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“Though Sri Ramakrishna became the prophet of neo-Hinduism, he never claimed to have founded any new religion.” Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa reshaped nineteenth-century Hindu religious sensibility so thoroughly that he is remembered as the founding figure of neo-Hinduism, yet he insisted throughout his life that he had discovered no new truth, only lived the old ones directly.

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  • Emergence Against the Backdrop of a Weakening Brahmo Reform
  • The Substance of His "New" Religious Vision
  • Why He Never Claimed to Found a New Religion
  • Vivekananda's Institutionalisation and the "Prophet" Label
  • The Universalism-Revivalism Tension

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