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'''Swami Atmajnanananda''' (also written '''Svāmī Ātmajñānānanda''', born '''Stuart Elkman''') is a [[swami]] (monk) of the [[Ramakrishna Order]], which he joined in 1981. He has a [[doctoral degree|Ph.D.]] in [[oriental studies]] from the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name="atma"/> He is currently resident minister at the [[Vedanta Center of Greater Washington, DC]], in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]], USA.<br />
<ref>''[[Prabuddha Bharata]]'', <br />
Vol. 114, No. 1 (January 2009), <br />
page 50.</ref><br />
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He authored ''Jiva Gosvamin's Tattvasandarbha: A Study on the Philosophical and Sectarian Development of the Gaudiya Vaisnava Movement'', published by [[Motilal Banarsidass]] in 1986 under his pre-monastic name.<ref>{{ISBN|81-208-0187-3}}</ref><br />
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Atmajnanananda was a significant critic of [[Jeffrey J. Kripal|Jeffrey Kripal]]'s book ''[[Kali's Child]]''.<ref name="atma"><br />
Swami Atmajnanananda (August 1997), ''Scandals, cover-ups, and other imagined occurrences in the life of Ramakrishna: An examination of Jeffrey Kripal's ''Kali's child. [[International Journal of Hindu Studies]], volume 1, issue 2, pages 401–420. {{doi|10.1007/s11407-997-0007-8}}. [https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11407-997-0007-8 Online version] accessed on 2010-01-20.<br />
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Jeffrey J. Kripal (January 1998), ''Pale Plausibilities: A Preface for the Second Edition [of Kali's Child]''. University of Chicago Press. [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kalischi/pale.html Online version] available at Kripal's Rice University website, accessed on 2010-01-25. "Swami Atmajnanananda, for example, has gone through the first edition with the proverbial "fine-toothed comb" and published his criticisms in a journal article (but only, I might add, after corresponding with me for almost a year)." [...] "A close reading of [Atmajnanananda] article and the present edition will reveal where I agree with Atmajnanananda and where I still disagree. I am deeply grateful to Swamiji for his intellectual honesty, for his religious integrity, and, most of all, for his humane civility."<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.vedanta-dc.org Vedanta Center of Greater Washington, DC website]<br />
*[http://www.advaitaashrama.org/AudioDownload Swami Atmajnanananda (English) Lecture, Boston]<br />
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