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The Vedanta Society built its first temple, called the Old Temple, in North America in San Francisco in 1905. [Note 1] [1] [2] [3] This temple has evolved into a bona fide Hindu temple. [Note 1] Through the 1930s and 1940s, Vedanta Societies were also established in Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Providence, Chicago, St. Louis, and Seattle.
The bone of contention between these two Samaj's was over the authority of the Vedas – whose authority the Adi Dharma reject and hold to be inferior works, whereas Arya Samaj hold Vedas to be divine revelation. Despite this difference of opinion, however, it seems that the members of the Brahmo Samaj and Swami Dayanand parted on good terms ...
The Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devastanam, owned by the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, New York, was consecrated on July 4, 1977. [52] There are over 1450 Hindu temples across the United States, [53] with a majority on the East Coast. The New York region has more than 1135 temples; [54] Texas has 128 [55] and Massachusetts has ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
The Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston was founded in 1909, and is one of the oldest Vedanta Society in North America. It is a branch of Ramakrishna Order founded by Swami Vivekananda. [56] Swami Paramananda founded the Vedanta center in Boston in 1909. In 1941 Swami Akhilananda moved it to its present location at 58 Deerfield Street, Boston ...
The Brahmo Samaj strived towards monotheism, while no longer regarding the Vedas as sole religious authority. [108] The Brahmo Samaj had a strong influence on the Neo-Vedanta of Vivekananda, [108] Aurobindo, Radhakrishnan and Gandhi, [107] who strived toward a modernized, humanistic Hinduism with an open eye for societal problems and needs. [107]
The Church of the New Dispensation was a religious movement founded in the 19th century by Keshab Chunder Sen, characterized by its syncretic blend of Hindu, Christian, and other religious traditions, and its focus on direct, personal spiritual experience and social reform within the framework of Indian Brahmoism.
The bone of contention between these two Samaj's was over the authority of the Vedas – whose authority the Adi Dharma reject and hold to be inferior works, whereas Arya Samaj hold Vedas to be divine revelation. Despite this difference of opinion, however, it seems that the members of the Brahmo Samaj and Swami Dayanand parted on good terms ...