Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:727Hits:21038207Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID121840
Title ProperOdyssey of the Ananda Marga
Other Title Informationa comparative study
LanguageENG
AuthorSil, Narasingha P
Publication2013.
Summary / Abstract (Note)This paper seeks to examine the ideology and theology of the Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss), a new radical Hindu sect of postcolonial India, by comparing its odyssey with an almost radical Christian sect of Reformation Europe, the Anabaptists. Like the Anabaptists, the Ananda Marga began as a movement of the common man. Both were also millennial movements with lay leadership arising as responses to the social, cultural, and economic crises of their respective historical times. Both sought to recover the pristine and authentic ethos of their respective religious traditions and thus antagonized their respective governments. Consequently, both endured persecution but both survived their ordeal by re-forming their ideology and theology under competent leadership to emerge as peaceful, fruitful, and resourceful members of their societies.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 48, No.2; Apr 2013: p.229-241
Journal SourceJournal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 48, No.2; Apr 2013: p.229-241
Key WordsAnanda Marga ;  Dharmarajya ;  Geo - Religion ;  Gurukula ;  Gutergemeinschaft ;  Parama Purusa ;  Tandava ;  Kaushiki