Paul Hacker (Indologist)
Paul Hacker (6 january 1913 - 18 march 1979) was a German Indologist,[1] who coined the term Neo-Vedanta in a pejorative way, to distinguish modern developments from "traditional" Advaita Vedanta.[2]
Publications
- Hacker, Paul (1970), Aspects of Neo-Hinduism as Contrasted with Surviving Traditional Hinduism
- Hacker, Paul (1995), Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta, SUNY
References
- ^ Halbfass 1995.
- ^ Madaio, James (2017), "Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta", Religions, 8 (6): 101, doi:10.3390/rel8060101
Sources
- Halbfass, Wilhelm (1995), "Introduction. An Uncommon Orientalist: Paul Hacker's Passage to India" (PDF), Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta, SUNY
Further reading
- Bagchee, Joydeep; Adluri, Vishwa P. (2013), "The passion of Paul Hacker: Indology, orientalism, and evangelism", in Cho, Joanne Miyang; Kurlander, Eric; McGetchin, Douglas T. (eds.), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India. Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries (PDF), Routledge
- Locklin, Reid B. (2015), "Non-Dual Belonging: Conversion, Sanskritization and the Dissolution of the Multiple in Advaita Missionary Movements", Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, 28, doi:10.7825/2164-6279.1608
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