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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 54. Who was Swami Vivekananda?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46396

Blurb:

Vivekananda has been credited with contributing to the resurgence of Hindu confidence during the closing years of the 19th century, which fed into the movement for independence. His ideas have been selectively assimilated into counter-cultural and New Age movements in North America and Western Europe, and into yoga during its transformation into a global phenomenon. 

Chapter Contributors

  • Gwilym Beckerlegge (gwilym.beckerlegge@open.ac.uk - gbeckerlegge) 'The Open University'