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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... ideology born of a complex weave of the modern notions of “Hindu” and “nation” reaches back, however, at least a century earlier, surely dating to the first Indian informant's attempt to “spin” a European scholar's representation of ...
... ideology born of a complex weave of the modern notions of “Hindu” and “nation” reaches back, however, at least a century earlier, surely dating to the first Indian informant's attempt to “spin” a European scholar's representation of ...
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... ideologies that took for granted the superiority of British blood and culture over their Indian counterparts also ... ideology. An association of English-educated, elite Indians had begun, quietly at first, to demand a wider role for ...
... ideologies that took for granted the superiority of British blood and culture over their Indian counterparts also ... ideology. An association of English-educated, elite Indians had begun, quietly at first, to demand a wider role for ...
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... ideological matters so long as the claims are theoretically and empirically grounded. The distinction between a sloppy and an incisive invocation of some macro entity lies in the author's full articulation of a prior level of ...
... ideological matters so long as the claims are theoretically and empirically grounded. The distinction between a sloppy and an incisive invocation of some macro entity lies in the author's full articulation of a prior level of ...
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... ideological superstructure imposed from above as a tool of repression.25 In his study of the Karta ̄bhaja ̄s of colonial Bengal, Hugh B. Urban has also produced a work that treats religious devotion as an expression of resistance to ...
... ideological superstructure imposed from above as a tool of repression.25 In his study of the Karta ̄bhaja ̄s of colonial Bengal, Hugh B. Urban has also produced a work that treats religious devotion as an expression of resistance to ...
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... ideologies, concepts, and practices. The colonial historiography of the British in India must do justice to the place of religion—Hindu and Christian—in that encounter. With respect to Christianity, it must neither deny its power by ...
... ideologies, concepts, and practices. The colonial historiography of the British in India must do justice to the place of religion—Hindu and Christian—in that encounter. With respect to Christianity, it must neither deny its power by ...
Inhalt
3 | |
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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