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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... evangelicals and utilitarians a generation after Jones were united against the Orientalists he represented in their insistence that, beneath a veil of confusion and contradiction, Hindu traditions operated with clear, regular, and ...
... evangelicals and utilitarians a generation after Jones were united against the Orientalists he represented in their insistence that, beneath a veil of confusion and contradiction, Hindu traditions operated with clear, regular, and ...
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... evangelical missionaries debated their incompatible visions for India and manufactured corresponding images of Hinduism. Invoking European historical experience, he further reconstructs a Bengali reaction to these British disputes as a ...
... evangelical missionaries debated their incompatible visions for India and manufactured corresponding images of Hinduism. Invoking European historical experience, he further reconstructs a Bengali reaction to these British disputes as a ...
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... evangelical missionaries who took an interest in them. In taking this path, he was preceded by John and Jean Comaroff, who first demonstrated the manner in which ethnography of religion could serve as a useful tool to the historian of ...
... evangelical missionaries who took an interest in them. In taking this path, he was preceded by John and Jean Comaroff, who first demonstrated the manner in which ethnography of religion could serve as a useful tool to the historian of ...
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... evangelical Christianity. Chapter 2 examines the genesis of missionary strategies derived by upperclass evangelicals in the heart of the metropole. Situated at the center of colonial power, such men as William Wilberforce and Charles ...
... evangelical Christianity. Chapter 2 examines the genesis of missionary strategies derived by upperclass evangelicals in the heart of the metropole. Situated at the center of colonial power, such men as William Wilberforce and Charles ...
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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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