Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of ReligionOxford University Press, 28.04.2005 - 260 Seiten Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "Hinduism" came into being. He argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries. Rather, he says, it involved the active agency and engagement of Indian authors as well, who interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion. |
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... European contact with Hindus. This influx of information sparked a sharp rise in popular interest and brought the weight of British public opinion to bear on the colonial administration. The knowledge the public imbibed was, of course ...
... European contact with Hindus. This influx of information sparked a sharp rise in popular interest and brought the weight of British public opinion to bear on the colonial administration. The knowledge the public imbibed was, of course ...
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... Europeans as an administrative or academic convenience that did violence to some vast array of mutually exclusive Indian religious communities and traditions. I critique this argument in chapter 6 in somewhat greater detail, but here it ...
... Europeans as an administrative or academic convenience that did violence to some vast array of mutually exclusive Indian religious communities and traditions. I critique this argument in chapter 6 in somewhat greater detail, but here it ...
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... Europeans who required her presence. In making the case, this study rests on its own documentary sources, both British and Indian, and on the work of scholars such as Eugene Irschick, David Lorenzen, Hugh Urban, Will Sweetman, and ...
... Europeans who required her presence. In making the case, this study rests on its own documentary sources, both British and Indian, and on the work of scholars such as Eugene Irschick, David Lorenzen, Hugh Urban, Will Sweetman, and ...
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... European scholar's representation of Hinduism in favor of some perceived Indian interest. This collaboration marked the first formal meeting of European religious categories (specifically, Christian ones), and nascent Indian national ...
... European scholar's representation of Hinduism in favor of some perceived Indian interest. This collaboration marked the first formal meeting of European religious categories (specifically, Christian ones), and nascent Indian national ...
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... European classical and biblical tropes, the traveler's representation of Hindu religious ideas and practices ranged from the fantastic to the monstrous. Catholic missionaries from the European continent established the first sustained ...
... European classical and biblical tropes, the traveler's representation of Hindu religious ideas and practices ranged from the fantastic to the monstrous. Catholic missionaries from the European continent established the first sustained ...
Inhalt
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2 The Other Without and the Other Within | 23 |
3 Scarcely Less Bloody than Lascivious | 59 |
4 Polymorphic Nature Polytheistic Culture and the Orientalist Imaginaire | 101 |
5 Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta | 139 |
Some Concluding Thoughts | 167 |
Notes | 191 |
Works Cited | 225 |
Index | 241 |
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ancient Anglican Anti-Catholicism Asiatic Society Asiatick Researches Asiatick Society authority Bengal Bhabanicaran brahman Brian K Britain British India Britons Buchanan Calcutta Candrika¯’s Carey caste Catholic character Chris Christianity in India Church Missionary Society claim Clapham Sect classes colonial Comaroff communities concept construction of Hinduism critical culture Delhi described Dharma Dharma Sabha discourse divine Druids Dubois duism early East India elite encounter English European evangelical foreign heathen Hindoos Hindu nation Hindu-Christian Hindus and Christians historians human ideas identity ideology idolatry images imagined Indomania Indophobia issue John Jones’s journal knowledge kulin laborers literature London McCutcheon mission Missionary Papers modern moral native nineteenth century Orientalist Oxford pagan political poor popular postcolonial Protestant reform religion religious studies representation rite ritual Sama¯ca¯r Candrika Sanskrit satı scholars Serampore social Society’s spiritual study of religion subcontinent texts theological tion University Press Ward Ward’s western Wilberforce Wilford William Jones William Wilberforce worship
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