Thursday, July 22, 2010

Interpreting Ramakrishna : Another book on Ramakrishna


Google pointed to a new book today:
Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited by Swami Tyagananda and Pravrajika Vrajaprana, with foreword by Huston Smith
ISBN(Hardbound): 8120834992, 9788120834996

It is particularly interesting to note what Francis X.Clooney has said about the book:

Interpreting Ramakrishna is a substantial and conscientious work of scholarly and religious reflection, the best resource we have for understanding Sri Ramakrishna today. Instigated by recent debates about Ramakrishna's identity and significance, the book fruitfully invites us to step back and take a much longer perspective, noticing a century's worth of Ramakrishna scholarship by devotees, monastic writers, and academic scholars. But the book also looks forward to how we — with all our varied interests and perspectives — can most fruitfully reflect on Ramakrishna in the 21st century. We can only thank Swami Tyagananda and Pravrajika Vrajaprana for showing us how to remember, think clearly, and write constructively about Ramakrishna, with an honesty that is critical, unpresuming, and in fact deeply spiritual. —Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School