Abstract:As Swami Vivekananda travelled West at the end of the nineteenth century to propagate what has become known as ‘Hindu Universalism’, the American Sarah Farmer travelled to Palestine to embrace the new Baha’i faith. This article will ask why both wished to create ‘universal’ religions, and why they found inspiration at Green Acre, Maine in 1894 in the wake of the Chicago World Parliament of Religions in 1893. Visitors to Green Acre discussed ‘divine femininity’, engaged with men such as Vivekananda and Abdu’l-B… Show more
In the article 'Vivekananda, Sarah Farmer, and global spiritual transformations in the fin de siècle', 1 Sophie-Jung Hyun Kim's name was incorrectly spelled on page 182 in footnote 19.
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