ABSTRACT
This short chapter acts as a summary to the work, and concludes that Vivekananda must be understood, not as an exclusivist Hindu chauvinist, nor as a simplistic religious pluralist, but as a complex, hierarchical inclusivist. Crucially, Vivekananda applied this form of hierarchical inclusivism as much to Hinduism as he did to ‘non-Hindu’ traditions. The chapter concludes by arguing that Vivekananda’s approach to Hinduism can only be fully understood by understanding his view of the human religious experience per se, rather than Hinduism in particular.
