Academic study
Kali’s Child (Jeffrey J. Kripal)
Kālī’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
It reads Ramakrishna’s ecstasies through Shakta Tantra and psychoanalysis, from the Bengali text of the Kathamrita and the passages Nikhilananda softened, and argues that they contain a homoerotic component. It won the American Academy of Religion’s award and met a harsh reply from the Ramakrishna Order and other scholars. It is indispensable for the state of academic debate.
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Authorship note
Academic study (revised doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago) of Ramakrishna; not his work.
Editions and translations
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English
Ramakrishna
Kālī’s Child (2.ª ed., prólogo de Wendy Doniger)
The Conscious LibraryKālī’s Child (2.ª ed., prólogo de Wendy Doniger)
University of Chicago Press, 1998
ISBN 0226453774
Kālī’s Child
University of Chicago Press, 1995
ISBN 0226453758
Other works by Ramakrishna
- Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna) · 1902
- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna according to M. (M.’s own English version) · 1897
- The Gospel of Râmakrishna (Abhedananda edition, 1907) · 1907
- Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master (Lilaprasanga) · 1909
- Râmakrishna: His Life and Sayings · 1898
- Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna · 1903
- Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna
- Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna · 1934
- Words of the Master
- Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi (A Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna) · 1901
- Life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Ramchandra Datta) · 1890
- Ramakrishna as We Saw Him · 1990
- The Life of Ramakrishna (Romain Rolland) · 1929
- Ramakrishna and His Disciples (Christopher Isherwood) · 1965
- Interpreting Ramakrishna (Tyagananda and Vrajaprana) · 2010
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: Sadhaka of Dakshineswar (Amiya P. Sen) · 2010
- Great Swan (Lex Hixon) · 1992
Sources
- Kripal, Jeffrey J. Kālī’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995 (2.ª ed., 1998).
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