The Quiet Revolution in Potomac: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

Every faith tradition, I think, has its divine troublemakers. These are the prophets and reformers, the always courageous and sometimes outrageous souls who upset the status quo and dare us to shift paradigms. They lead us in—to borrow a phrase from one of my teachers—a “revolution in consciousness.”
One such revolutionary from my own tradition (the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition within devotional Hinduism) was a 19th century theologian named Bhaktivinode Thakur. As cited elsewhere in this volume, among his other accomplishments Bhaktivinode championed a radically progressive view of interfaith understanding.