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Antony Copley, editor. Gurus and Their Followers: New Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xxii, 235. $29.95.

This book is a collection of essays that were originally presented at a panel on "New Religious Movements in South Asia" at the Fourteenth European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Copenhagen in August 1996. These essays are listed to convey to the reader an idea of the range of issues canvassed: "A Study in Religious Leadership and Cultism" (Antony Copley); "Educating Women, Educating a Daughter: Babu Navincandra Rai, Laksmi-Sarasvati Samvad (1869), and Hemantkumari Chaudhurani" (Ulrike Stark); "Swami Akandananda's Sevavrata (Vow of Service) and the Earliest Expressions of Service to Humanity in the Ramakrishna Math and Mission" (Gwilym Beckerlegge); "The Ramakrishna Mission: Its Female Aspect" (Hiltrud Rüstau); "'Kindly Elders of the Hindu Biradri': The rya Samj's Struggle for Influence and its Effect on Hindu-Muslim Relations, 1880–1925" (Harald Fischer-Tiné); "'Duties of Ahmadi Women': Educative Processes in the Early Stages of the Ahmadiyya Movement" (Avril A. Powell); "Theosophy as a Political Movement" (Mark Bevir); "Thinking Culture through Counter-Culture: The Case of Theosophists in India and Ceylon and Their Ideas on Race and Hierarchy (1875–1947)" (Carla Risseuw); and "The Error of All 'Churches': Religion and Spirituality in Communities Founded or 'Inspired' by Sri Aurobindo" (Peter Heehs). . . .

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