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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... political and religious significance previously unprecedented among Indians or those who ruled them. While the British proposed and debated the unity, character, and content of Indian religion, Hindus responded with apologetic ...
... political and religious significance previously unprecedented among Indians or those who ruled them. While the British proposed and debated the unity, character, and content of Indian religion, Hindus responded with apologetic ...
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... political persuasions who nevertheless accepted and normalized more sedate, urbane forms of religious expression. To put it another way, Banerjee's work suggests that the shape of modern Hinduism was the outcome of a contest among ...
... political persuasions who nevertheless accepted and normalized more sedate, urbane forms of religious expression. To put it another way, Banerjee's work suggests that the shape of modern Hinduism was the outcome of a contest among ...
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... political sentiments is often dated to the formation of the Indian National Congress (later, the Congress Party of India) in 1885. The history of Hindu nationalism, a political ideology born of a complex weave of the modern notions of ...
... political sentiments is often dated to the formation of the Indian National Congress (later, the Congress Party of India) in 1885. The history of Hindu nationalism, a political ideology born of a complex weave of the modern notions of ...
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... political associations along with a vernacular press first appeared in the early decades of the nineteenth century, but the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 signaled the shift to a recognizably nationalist ideology ...
... political associations along with a vernacular press first appeared in the early decades of the nineteenth century, but the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 signaled the shift to a recognizably nationalist ideology ...
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... political and military mastery of Hindus. Partha Mitter attributes increasingly polemical representations of Hinduism to a vast increase in the quality and quantity of information about India that could be turned against it.8 Thomas ...
... political and military mastery of Hindus. Partha Mitter attributes increasingly polemical representations of Hinduism to a vast increase in the quality and quantity of information about India that could be turned against it.8 Thomas ...
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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