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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... communities and traditions. I critique this argument in chapter 6 in somewhat greater detail, but here it should be noted that I oppose such a position for two reasons. First, the claim that Britain invented Hinduism grants altogether ...
... communities and traditions. I critique this argument in chapter 6 in somewhat greater detail, but here it should be noted that I oppose such a position for two reasons. First, the claim that Britain invented Hinduism grants altogether ...
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... communities, cultures, and peoples. Scholars of religion can, by turns, provoke resentment among religious communities, validate cherished histories, or provide fodder for contests internal to a religious traditions. One of this book's ...
... communities, cultures, and peoples. Scholars of religion can, by turns, provoke resentment among religious communities, validate cherished histories, or provide fodder for contests internal to a religious traditions. One of this book's ...
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... communities and subordinates not only their cognitive claims but also their communal and individual identities to the demands of the secular nation-state. I have attempted, as an antidote, to interject something of what Gerald Larson ...
... communities and subordinates not only their cognitive claims but also their communal and individual identities to the demands of the secular nation-state. I have attempted, as an antidote, to interject something of what Gerald Larson ...
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... communities and deities. The execution of the strategies examined in chapter 2 was subject to the exigencies of firsthand contact on the ground in India. The evangelical Protestant missionary encountering lived Hindu tradition for the ...
... communities and deities. The execution of the strategies examined in chapter 2 was subject to the exigencies of firsthand contact on the ground in India. The evangelical Protestant missionary encountering lived Hindu tradition for the ...
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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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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