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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... postcolonial world, and in no way can it be a purely academic exercise. Shifting British Attitudes: 1780s–1880s This book examines a brief but significant moment in the long history of Britain's most immediate and direct connection to ...
... postcolonial world, and in no way can it be a purely academic exercise. Shifting British Attitudes: 1780s–1880s This book examines a brief but significant moment in the long history of Britain's most immediate and direct connection to ...
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... postcolonial studies. Halbfassportrayed a coherent western tradition of thought and dominance that, by virtue of both force and inherent persuasion (in its obvious mastery of science and technology, for example), overcomes or insinuates ...
... postcolonial studies. Halbfassportrayed a coherent western tradition of thought and dominance that, by virtue of both force and inherent persuasion (in its obvious mastery of science and technology, for example), overcomes or insinuates ...
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... postcolonialism and subaltern studies made it necessary, in granting full agency and subjectivity to the Indian and European authors he treated. In no sense did he render Indians unsuspecting agents of their own domination, and his work ...
... postcolonialism and subaltern studies made it necessary, in granting full agency and subjectivity to the Indian and European authors he treated. In no sense did he render Indians unsuspecting agents of their own domination, and his work ...
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... postcolonial, post-essentializing study of religion and culture, every analytic text would undermine itself by suggesting its own limits. In keeping with this sentiment, with which I concur, I would currently say that a wider lens might ...
... postcolonial, post-essentializing study of religion and culture, every analytic text would undermine itself by suggesting its own limits. In keeping with this sentiment, with which I concur, I would currently say that a wider lens might ...
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... postcolonial histories of India strongly suggests that some of the very same scholars who would decry any essentialism of the East or any segment of it take considerably less care when invoking the West as a category. This book's ...
... postcolonial histories of India strongly suggests that some of the very same scholars who would decry any essentialism of the East or any segment of it take considerably less care when invoking the West as a category. This book's ...
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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