Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of ReligionOxford University Press, 28. apr. 2005 - 260 sider 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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... authority to pronounce some version of a tradition an impostor as an illegitimate intervention of academic historiography into the sphere of religion itself, a sphere over which practitioners alone should have custody. Many hundreds of ...
... authority to pronounce some version of a tradition an impostor as an illegitimate intervention of academic historiography into the sphere of religion itself, a sphere over which practitioners alone should have custody. Many hundreds of ...
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... authorities do not, [and] that he or she arrogates to him- or herself the exclusive right to speak for Hinduism ... authority), it is nothing but a collection of fragmented, disparate, localized, particularistic, and ever-changing ...
... authorities do not, [and] that he or she arrogates to him- or herself the exclusive right to speak for Hinduism ... authority), it is nothing but a collection of fragmented, disparate, localized, particularistic, and ever-changing ...
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... authority claims by demonstrating the many and widespread effects the British Raj had on India but ultimately fails to account for the ways that Britain itself was transformed by the experiences of colonization and empire. Additionally ...
... authority claims by demonstrating the many and widespread effects the British Raj had on India but ultimately fails to account for the ways that Britain itself was transformed by the experiences of colonization and empire. Additionally ...
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... authority situated in diverse settings. Furthermore, it was not a relationship whereby one power unambiguously dominated another. Without understating the violence and dehumanizing subordination on which it was predicated or the vast ...
... authority situated in diverse settings. Furthermore, it was not a relationship whereby one power unambiguously dominated another. Without understating the violence and dehumanizing subordination on which it was predicated or the vast ...
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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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