TY - BOOK AU - Barua, Ankur TI - The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaisnava Milieus: Intersections of Hindu Knowledge and Love in Nineteenth Century Bengal SN - 9789004445246 U1 - S86 PY - 2021/// CY - Leiden PB - Brill N1 - 1 Introduction 1 Bhakti in the Brahmo Samaj 2 The Premodern Roots of Vaisnava Bhakti in Bengal 3 The Brahmo Samaj and Its Vaisnava Milieus 4 Conclusion 2 Rammohun Roy and Debendranath Tagore: Between Advaita Critique and Devotional Theism 1 The Advaitic Worship of Rammohun 2 The Devotional Intensities of Debendranath 3 Christian Missionaries and Their Brahmo Interlocutors 4 Conclusion 3 Rajnarayan Basu: Between Religious Intuition and Ecstatic Vaisnavism 1 Brahmo Religiosity between Reason and Revelation 2 Brahmo Theism and the 'Essential Religion' 3 The Devotional Affectivities of Brahmo Theism 4 Brahmo Adoration of the Supremely Beautiful Lord 5 Conclusion 4 Bijoy Krishna Goswami: Between Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism and Brahmo Universalism 1 The Vaisnava Pathways of Brahmo Devotion 2 The Brahmo Universalism of Vaisnava Devotion 3 Between the Brahmos and the Vaisnavas 4 Goswami as Caitanya Redivivus 5 Conclusion 5 Sitanath Tattvabhushan and Bipin Chandra Pal: Between Hegelian Universalism and Vaisnava Devotionalism 1 Sitanath and the 'Intuitions' of Brahmo Devotion 2 Between the Brahman of Vedanta and the Absolute of Hegel 3 From the Upanisads towards Kṛṣṇa 4 The Vaisnava Devotion of a Hegelian Brahmo 5 The Brahmo Samaj and Its Philosophical Foundations 6 Conclusion 6 Sivanath Sastri and Pratap Chandra Mozoomdar: Between the Social Gospel and Brahmo Devotionalism 1 The Social Orientations of Brahmo Devotion 2 The Universal Devotion of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj 3 The New Dispensation and Brahmo Rationalism 4 Conclusion 7 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Between Brahmo Rationalities and Vaisnava Affectivities 1 Religion as Revelation and Religion as Historical Construct 2 Bankim and the Ideal Krsna of Vaisnavism 3 Between Science and Self 4 Conclusion 8 Competing Visions of Hindu Universalism 1 The Brahmo Quest for Harmony and the Religions of the World 2 The Reconstructions of Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism 3 Ramakrishna between Brahmos and Vaisnavas 4 Between Traditional Modernities and Modernised Traditions 9 Conclusion ER -