Vedanta Society

The oldest Hindu missionary organization in America, established in 1897 by
Swami Vivekananda. The society stresses
the philosophical teachings of Vedanta,
which it understands as referring solely
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to the Advaita Vedanta school,
Vivekananda’s major emphasis. The
society’s tone has been nontheistic,
nonritual, and rationalist; its constituency has been drawn from liberals
and intellectuals, such as the writer
Aldous Huxley.