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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... Religion in South Asia section of the American Academy of Religion (San Francisco, November 1997); the Hinduism Group of the American Academy of Religion (Boston, November 1999); a graduate seminar on Religious Transformations in ...
... Religion in South Asia section of the American Academy of Religion (San Francisco, November 1997); the Hinduism Group of the American Academy of Religion (Boston, November 1999); a graduate seminar on Religious Transformations in ...
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... 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, correction, 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, correction, and ...
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... religion we now routinely call “Hinduism” and its attendant identities. This book argues that this brief span of years was decisive for the development of modern Hinduism, conceived of as a world religion comparable in scope and ...
... religion we now routinely call “Hinduism” and its attendant identities. This book argues that this brief span of years was decisive for the development of modern Hinduism, conceived of as a world religion comparable in scope and ...
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... religion: colonial encounter certainly created the circumstances under which Hinduism, in terms of a world religion, comparable to other “great” traditions such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, emerged not only as an idea, a ...
... religion: colonial encounter certainly created the circumstances under which Hinduism, in terms of a world religion, comparable to other “great” traditions such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, emerged not only as an idea, a ...
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... religion does not take place in a vacuum. It has, perhaps increasingly so, real effects on the lives of those whom we study and represent, on their sense of identity, and, at the macro level, on relations between global religious ...
... religion does not take place in a vacuum. It has, perhaps increasingly so, real effects on the lives of those whom we study and represent, on their sense of identity, and, at the macro level, on relations between global religious ...
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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