Skip to main

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Término preferido

Swaminarayan movement  

Definición

  • Swaminarayan Hinduism is an early 19th-century reform movement in Gujarat that is a significant transnational movement in the early 21st century. Sahajanand Swami (1781–1830) was a Brahman born in Chhapia, near Ayodhya, in North India, who traveled as a youth throughout India as a spiritual seeker before taking initiation and residence in Gujarat in 1802. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Swaminarayan Movement]

Concepto genérico

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DKM4TJ9R-K

Descargue este concepto: