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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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. 1. Introduction. The Crystallization of a Concept Sometime between 1789 and 1832, the British perception of Hindu religious traditions underwent a seismic ...
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. 1. Introduction. The Crystallization of a Concept Sometime between 1789 and 1832, the British perception of Hindu religious traditions underwent a seismic ...
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. the modern world religion we now routinely call “Hinduism” and its attendant identities. This book argues that this brief span of years was decisive for the ...
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. the modern world religion we now routinely call “Hinduism” and its attendant identities. This book argues that this brief span of years was decisive for the ...
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. scribe the contrast between elite and plebeian culture under the growth of the Raj. The Parlour and the Streets finds a systematic erasure of the folk ...
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. scribe the contrast between elite and plebeian culture under the growth of the Raj. The Parlour and the Streets finds a systematic erasure of the folk ...
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. But, Smith insists, this act is different from pronouncing what a religious tradition (e.g., Hinduism) is, and it is different from declaring what a ...
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. But, Smith insists, this act is different from pronouncing what a religious tradition (e.g., Hinduism) is, and it is different from declaring what a ...
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. religious traditions as social phenomena always already in flux, subject to exercises of power and resistance to it, reflective of prevailing social ...
Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion Brian K. Pennington. religious traditions as social phenomena always already in flux, subject to exercises of power and resistance to it, reflective of prevailing social ...
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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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