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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... concept of the project and its stylistic expression toward greater clarity. Sunanda Sanyal coached me through archaic Bengali passages and was a marvelous conversation partner. Hena Basu helped me locate many important documents and ...
... concept of the project and its stylistic expression toward greater clarity. Sunanda Sanyal coached me through archaic Bengali passages and was a marvelous conversation partner. Hena Basu helped me locate many important documents and ...
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. This page intentionally left blank 1 Introduction The Crystallization of a Concept Sometime between 1789.
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. This page intentionally left blank 1 Introduction The Crystallization of a Concept Sometime between 1789.
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... Concept Sometime between 1789 and 1832, the British perception of Hindu religious traditions underwent a seismic shift. Sir William Jones had complained in 1789 that Hindu mythology confronted the historian with a virtually impenetrable ...
... Concept Sometime between 1789 and 1832, the British perception of Hindu religious traditions underwent a seismic shift. Sir William Jones had complained in 1789 that Hindu mythology confronted the historian with a virtually impenetrable ...
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... concept and reality foreign to India prior to the arrival of the British introduces an almost irreparable disruption in Indian traditions that can only alienate contemporary Indians from their own traditions. I regard the appropriation ...
... concept and reality foreign to India prior to the arrival of the British introduces an almost irreparable disruption in Indian traditions that can only alienate contemporary Indians from their own traditions. I regard the appropriation ...
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... concepts or reinterpreted Indian concepts in western ways. Halbfass maintained that the European, especially British presence in India “affected the very self-understanding of the [Indian] tradition and turned out to be inescapable even ...
... concepts or reinterpreted Indian concepts in western ways. Halbfass maintained that the European, especially British presence in India “affected the very self-understanding of the [Indian] tradition and turned out to be inescapable even ...
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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