Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788171676286
Description
Delivered as the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford in 1930, these chapters provide an extensive and commanding exposition of Tagore's understanding of the meaning and significance or religion in the cultural history of man.
The Religion of Man (1931), delivered as the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford in 1930, is an extensive and commanding exposition of Tagore's understanding of the meaning and significance of religion in the cultural history of man. 'The Manchester Guardian' commented 'no series of the Hibbert Lecture has aroused more public interest than the present one.'
'The Religion of Man' for Tagore is not a question of theory but a thing of experience. Most people are born into a religion; few earn their own. Tagore did. He delivered these lectures when he was nearly seventy. They are as his mature reflection on the subject.
Contents
Preface
1. Man's Universe
2. The Creative Spirit
3. The Surplus in Man
4. Spiritual Union
5. The Prophet
6. The Vision
7. The Man of My Heart
8. The Music Maker
9. The Artist
10. Man's Nature
11. The Meeting
12. The Teacher
13. Spiritual Freedom
14. The Four Stages of Life
Conclusion
Appendix
1. The Baul singers of Bengal
2. Dadu and the Mystery of Form
3. Night and Morning