Editing Ram Swarup (section)

=== Hinduism ===

Ram Swarup upheld the polytheistic interpretation of the [[Vedas]] by rejecting the concept of one God,<ref>{{cite book|last=Goel|first=Sita Ram|title=Defence of Hindu Society|year=1987|publisher=Voice of India|location=New Delhi, India|url=http://voi.org/books/hindusoc/ch5.htm|quote="In the Vedic approach, there is no single God. This is bad enough. But the Hindus do not have even a supreme God, a fuhrer-God who presides over a multiplicity of Gods." – Ram Swarup|access-date=2011-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181337/http://voi.org/books/hindusoc/ch5.htm|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> and states that, "only some form of polytheism alone can do justice to this variety and richness."<ref>{{cite book|last=Goel|first=Sita Ram|title=Defence of Hindu Society|year=1987|publisher=Voice of India|location=New Delhi, India|url=http://voi.org/books/hindusoc/ch5.htm|access-date=2011-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181337/http://voi.org/books/hindusoc/ch5.htm|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Swarup was influenced by [[Sri Aurobindo]], whom he held to be the greatest exponent of the Vedic vision in our times.<ref name="autoref1">Goel:How I became a Hindu. ch.8</ref>

Ram Swarup was "most responsible for reviving and re-popularizing" the [[Hindu]] 'critique' of [[Christian missionary]] practices in the 1980s, according to Chad Bauman. He insisted that monotheistic religions like Christianity "nurtured among their adherents a lack of respect for other religions".<ref name="ReferenceA">Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India by Chad M. Bauman, Oxford University Press, 2015</ref> In the 1980s, he and Goel were involved in a "vigorous debate" with the [[Christian Ashram movement]] represented by [[Bede Griffiths]].<ref>Theology in the Public Sphere Sebastian C. H. Kim</ref> Swarup has been named one of the most important thought leaders of the Hindu revivalist movement.<ref name="Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt 2009, p. 240"/>