The Light of the East was a monthly review founded in 1922[1] at Calcutta by Georges Dandoy, SJ (1882-1962) and Pierre Johanns, SJ.[2] Dandoy was the chief editor.[3] The monthly ceased publication in 1934.[4]
Founding and objective edit
Dandoy and Johanns were young Jesuits, newly arrived in India, when they met Brahmachari Animananda, disciple of Brahmobandhav Upadhyay. Animananda encouraged them in their desire to begin a journal that would carry on the spirit of inquiry initiated by Upadhyay.[5] P. Turmes reports that Animananda's face brightened up when the two Jesuits laid before him the proposal for a journal that would present Christ to India in a way adapted to her mentality and culture.[6]
Both Dandoy and Johanns contributed regularly to the review. Several of Johanns' contributions were later published in book form under the title To Christ to the Vedanta.[7] Other contributors included members of the so-called Calcutta School of Indology.
Holdings edit
The Indian Institute of the University of Oxford has an incomplete set.[8] The Yale University Library has a complete set on microfilm.[1]
References edit
- ^ Joseph Mattam SJ. "Interpreting Christ to India Today: The Calcutta School" (PDF). Biblical Studies. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Sean Doyle, Synthesizing the Vedanta: The Theology of Pierre Johanns, S.J. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006) 28.
- ^ Doyle 127.
- ^ Martin Ganeri (2007). "Knowledge and Love of God in Ramanuja and Aquinas". Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. 20 (6). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Doyle 130-131.
- ^ P. Turmes, A Teacher of Genius: B. Animananda (Calcutta: Xavier Publications, 1963) 63.
- ^ To Christ through the Vedānta: The Writings of Reverend P. Johanns, S.J. 2 vols. Ed. Theo de Greeff. Bangalore: The United Theological College, 1996.
- ^ Doyle 23.
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