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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... Indian informant's attempt to “spin” a 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 ...
... Indian informant's attempt to “spin” a 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 ...
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. relationship between Britain and ... Christians and Hindus, and their struggles to comprehend and address Hinduism in many respects replicated their own ...
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. relationship between Britain and ... Christians and Hindus, and their struggles to comprehend and address Hinduism in many respects replicated their own ...
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... Christian self-understanding by finally dissolving the marriage between religion and civilization.5 If many of the characteristic features of missionary polemic that are at the center of this book were already in place by the eighteenth ...
... Christian self-understanding by finally dissolving the marriage between religion and civilization.5 If many of the characteristic features of missionary polemic that are at the center of this book were already in place by the eighteenth ...
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... religion” as an apt cross-cultural comparative device problematic. Indeed, there are myriad ways in which Hindu and Christian traditions differ in the character and content of their normative models, but I refuse to accept that religion ...
... religion” as an apt cross-cultural comparative device problematic. Indeed, there are myriad ways in which Hindu and Christian traditions differ in the character and content of their normative models, but I refuse to accept that religion ...
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... religion can supply the context and motivation for transformation of social relations and the strategicappropriation of dominant signs and models. The book that follows addresses a series of encounters between British Christians and Hindus ...
... religion can supply the context and motivation for transformation of social relations and the strategicappropriation of dominant signs and models. The book that follows addresses a series of encounters between British Christians and Hindus ...
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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