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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... human subjects and communities. The idea that scholars and practitioners operate, indeed, should operate, within their neatly partitioned domains, is both naive and dangerous. I must be emphatic on one point: mine is not a call to ...
... human subjects and communities. The idea that scholars and practitioners operate, indeed, should operate, within their neatly partitioned domains, is both naive and dangerous. I must be emphatic on one point: mine is not a call to ...
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... human beings, a work motivated by and suffused with the highest scholarly standards and a genuine belief in the possibility of mutual understanding, a faith one encounters less and less these days. Had Halbfass survived to engage our ...
... human beings, a work motivated by and suffused with the highest scholarly standards and a genuine belief in the possibility of mutual understanding, a faith one encounters less and less these days. Had Halbfass survived to engage our ...
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... human experience to which the most radical postmodern critique of totalizing discourses must lead. I take it, rather, to be the scholar's duty not only to contextualize and historicize her data, but also to generalize and theorize ...
... human experience to which the most radical postmodern critique of totalizing discourses must lead. I take it, rather, to be the scholar's duty not only to contextualize and historicize her data, but also to generalize and theorize ...
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... human historical experience and to remain aware that we must constantly scrutinize the very categories with which we establish and characterize these commonalities. To take only one representative of the kind of concern for radical ...
... human historical experience and to remain aware that we must constantly scrutinize the very categories with which we establish and characterize these commonalities. To take only one representative of the kind of concern for radical ...
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... human activity and source of cosmological and social concepts, stands in contrast to Ranajit Guha's famous manifesto in the same volume that proposes the goals and aims of subaltern studies without once mentioning religion, and this in ...
... human activity and source of cosmological and social concepts, stands in contrast to Ranajit Guha's famous manifesto in the same volume that proposes the goals and aims of subaltern studies without once mentioning religion, and this in ...
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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