Dated edit

1880s edit

  • 1885 Ram Chandra Datta, jivanavrttant
  • 1886 Sureshchandra Datta's Sriramakrsnadeber Upades

1890s edit

  • 1893 Parliament of Religions held in Chicago
  • 1896 Vivekananda, “My Master”
  • 1897 Satyacharan Mitra, Sri Sri Ramakrsna Paramahamsadeber Jiboni o Upadesh
  • 1897 Mahendranath Gupta, The Gospel of Ramakrishna
  • 1898 F. Max Müller, Râmakrishna His Life And Sayings

1900s edit

  • 1901 Akshay Kumar Sen, Śrīśrīrāmkrsna Punthi
  • 1902 Mahendranath Gupta, Ramakrishna Kathamrta I
  • 1905 Mahendranath Gupta, Ramakrishna Kathamrta II
  • 1908 Mahendranath Gupta, Ramakrishna Kathamrta III

1910s edit

  • 1910 Mahendranath Gupta, Ramakrishna Kathamrta IV
  • 1911 Saradananda, lilaprasanga

1920s edit

  • 1929 Rolland, The Life of Ramakrishna

1930s edit

  • 1930 Vedanta Societies founded in Los Angeles and Chicago
  • 1932 Mahendranath Gupta, Ramakrishna Kathamrta V

1940s edit

  • 1942 Nikhilananda (trans), The Gospel of Ramakrishna

1950s edit

  • 1952 Jagadananda (trans), Sri Ramakrishna The Great Master

1960s edit

  • 1965 Isherwood, Ramakrishna and His Disciples
  • Leo Schneiderman's "Ramakrishna: Personality and Social Factors in the Growth of a Religious Movement" in Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion (Spring 1969)

1970s edit

  • Walter G Neevel Jr, ‘The Transformation of Ramakrishna’ in Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions, ed. Bardwell L Smith (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1976)

1980s edit

  • Malcolm McLean, "A Translation of Sri-Sri-Ramakrsna-Kathamrta with Explanatory Notes and Critical Introduction" (Ph.D. diss., Otago University, 1983).
  • Sumit Sarkar, "The Kathamrita as Text: Toward an Understanding of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa," Occasional Papers on History and Society, no. 22 (New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1985)

1990s edit

Early 1990s edit

  • Carl Olson, The Mysterious Play of Kali -- An Interpretive Study of Ramakrishna (Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1990)
  • Gananath Obeyesekere's The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation In Psychoanalysis And Anthropology (1990)
  • Sudhir Kakar, The Analyst and the Mystic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
  • Sumit Sarkar, “Ramakrishna and the Calcutta of His Times” in The Calcutta Psyche (India International. Centre Quarterly, 1991
  • Narasingha P. Sil, Ramakrsna Paramahamsa: A Psychological Profile (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991)
  • Narasinghah P. Sil, untitled review of The Mysterious Play of Kālī: An Interpretive Study of Rāma-Krishna by Carl Olson Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 330-331
  • Sumit Sarkar, "Kaliyuga, Cakri and Bhakti: Ramakrishna and His Times," Economic and Political Weekly 29, Sameeksha Trust (July 1992): 282-357
  • Narasingha P. Sil, "Vivekananda's Ramakrishna: An Untold Story of Mythmaking and Propaganda" Numen 40 (1): Jan 1993 p 61
  • Sumit Sarkar, An Exploration Of The Ramakrishna Vivekananda Tradition, 1993
  • Catherine Clement and Sudhir Kakar, La Folle et Le Saint (Paris, Seuil, 1993).
  • Hal W. French, Review: [untitled] Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna. by Lex Hixon The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Aug., 1993), pp. 753-754 Association for Asian Studies
  • Catherine Clement, Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).
  • Malcolm McLean [untitled review of The Analyst and the Mystic: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion and Mysticism] by Sudhir Kakar Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1994), pp. 654-655

Late 1990s edit

  • Kelley Ann Raab, "Is There Anything Transcendent About Transcendence? A Philosophical and Psychological Study of Sri Ramakrishna" Journal of the American Academy of Religion 1995 LXIII(2):321-341; American Academy of Religion
  • Jeanne Openshaw, “The mystic and the rustic”, Times Higher Education 15 Dec 1995 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=161271&sectioncode=40
  • Jean Oppenshaw, Times Higher Education Supplement (15-Sep-1995)
  • André Padoux, Archives de sciences sociales des religions 41 (Apr-Jun, 1996)
  • Narasingha Sil's review, "The Question of Ramakrishna's Homosexuality," in The Statesman (31 January 1997), the 38 ensuing letters to the editors (7, 11, 13, 18 February 1997), and the editors' final decision to close off all correspondence on the issue, "Now Let It Rest" (18 February 1997).
  • William Parsons, Religious studies review 23,4 (1997)
  • Swami Atmajnanananda, IJHS 1,2 (1997)
  • David Haberman, Journal of Asian Studies 56,2 (1997)
  • "Ramakrishna's Impulses Spark Row," in The Times of India (10 April 1997).
  • T.G. Vaidyanathan, "Kripal and Kali's Child" (The Hindu, 4 May 1997). Vaidyanathan called the scholarship of Kali's Child "compassionate."
  • Gerald Larson, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 65,3 (1997)
  • Rajat Ray, Indian economic and social history review 34,1 (1997)
  • TG Vaidyanathan, The Hindu (4-May-1997)
  • Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Hindu-Christian studies bulletin 10 (1997)
  • George Williams, Hindu studies review 2 (e-Journal, 1997)
  • Swami Atmajnanananda in his "Scandals, cover-ups, and other imagined occurrences in the life of Ramakrsna: An Examination of Jeffrey Kripal's Kali's Child," International Journal of Hindu Studies 1/2 (1997): 401-420
  • Carl Olson, IJHS 1,1 (1997)
  • Narasingha P. Sil, Swami Vivekananda: A Reassessment (Selmsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1997).
  • William B. Parsons, "Psychoanalysis and Mysticism: The Case of Ramakrishna," Religious Studies Review 23/4 (1997).
  • Parama Roy, "As the Master Saw Her: Western Women and Hindu Nationalism," in Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
  • Kripal, "Pale Plausibilities: A Preface for the Second Edition," in Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998; second edition)
  • John Stratton Hawley, History of Religions, Vol. 37, No. 4. (May, 1998), pp. 401-404. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2710%28199805%2937%3A4%3C401%3AKCTMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
  • Narasingha P. Sil, Ramakrishna Revisited: A New Biography (Lanham: University Press of America, 1998).
  • Hugh B. Urban The Journal of Religion, Vol. 78, No. 2. (Apr., 1998), pp. 318-320. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4189%28199804%2978%3A2%3C318%3AKCTMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
  • William Radice Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 61, No. 1. (1998), pp. 160-161. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281998%2961%3A1%3C160%3AKCTMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
  • Alan Roland, “Ramakrishna: Mystical, Erotic, or Both?” Journal of Religion and Health Springer Netherlands Issue Volume 37, Number 1 / March, 1998 Pages 31-36
  • Narasingha Sil, "Vahbharambhe Laghukriya" ("Much Ado About Nothing") May 10, 1998, http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_rv/s_rv_sil_kali_frameset.htm
  • John Hawley, History of Religion 37,4 (1998)
  • (reply to Larson) Kripal, JAAR 66,3 (1998)
  • (rejoinder to Kripal) Larson, JAAR 66,3 (1998)
  • William Radice, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61,1 (1998)
  • Narasingha Sil, RISA-L (mailing list) (10-May-1998)
  • William B. Parsons, The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
  • Jeanne Openshaw, “Crucifying a saint” review of Ramakrishna Revisited: A New Biography” by Narasingha P. Sil 11 December 1998 Times Higher Education http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=161020&sectioncode=40
  • Larson, Gerald James, "Polymorphic Sexuality, Homoeroticism, and the Study of Religion". Journal of the American Academy of 1998 66(3):637-640
  • Kripal, "Mystical Homoeroticism, Reductionism, and the Reality of Censorship: A Response to Gerald James Larson," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66/3
  • Parsons, William B The Oceanic Feeling Revisited, The Journal of Religion, Vol. 78, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp. 501-523 The University of Chicago Press
  • Brian A. Hatcher, "Kali's Problem Child: Another Look at Jeffrey Kripal's Study of Sri Ramakrishna," International Journal of Hindu Studies 3/1 (1999). Smith, Huston
  • Sumit Sarkar, “Post-modernism and the Writing of History” Studies in History.1999; 15: 293-322

2000s edit

Early 2000s edit

  • Tyagananda, Swami. “Kali's Child Revisited or Didn't Anyone Check the Documentation?” 2000 http://home.earthlink.net/~tyag/Home.htm
  • Kripal, "A Garland of Talking Heads for the Goddess: Some Personal and Theoretical Reflections on the Western Kali," in Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen Erndl, eds., Is the Indian Goddess a Feminist? (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000).
  • Kripal, "Secret Talk: Sexual Identity and the Politics of the Study of Hindu Tantrism," Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Winter 2001, 29/4
  • Kripal, Huston Smith, Swami Tyagananda, Somnath Bhattacharyya, Letters to the Editor. Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Spring 2001, 30/1
  • "Ramakrishna book backlash in House," The Telegraph (Calcutta), 4 April 2001.
  • "Government will not ban books on Ramakrishna, says L.K. Advani," The Times of India, 19 April 2001
  • Sudhir Kakar, Ecstasy (Viking, 2001).
  • Kripal, "The Tantric Truth of the Matter: A Forthright Response to Rajiv Malhotra," www.sulekha.com posted 21 September 2002
  • Kripal, "Sexuality, Textuality, and the Future of the Past: A Response to Swami *Tyagananda," Evam: Forum on Indian Representations 1:1-2 (2002): 191-205
  • Bhattacharyya, Somnath “Kali's Child: Psychological And Hermeneutical Problems” Dec 02 http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_rv/s_rv_bhatt_kali.htm
  • Kripal, "Teaching the Hindu Tantrism with Freud: Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory and Mystical Technique," for Diane Jonte-Pace, ed., Teaching Freud in Religious Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • Kripal, Jeffrey John, (1962-) Comparative Mystics: Scholars as Gnostic Diplomats Common Knowledge - Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2004, pp. 485-517

Late 2000s edit

  • Amiya P. Sen, "Sri Ramakrishna, the Kathamrita and the Calcutta middle Classes: an old problematic revisited" Postcolonial Studies, 9: 2 p 176 June 2006
  • Ramaswamy, Krishnan; Antonio de Nicolas (2007). Invading the Sacred. Delhi, India: Rupa & Co

Undated edit

  • Rajagopal Chattapadhyaya


  • Hindu Studies Review http://web.archive.org/web/19970806130030/www.csuchico.edu/rs/hsr/contents.html
    • Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna by Jeff Kripal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. lx, 446 pp.)
      • Methodological Review by George Williams
      • Content Review by Mary McCart
    • The Mysterious Play of Kali -- An Interpretive Study Ramakrishna by Carl Olson (Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1990)
      • Content Review by Mary McCart
    • Great Swan -- Meetings with Ramakrishna by Lex Hixon (Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1992)
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