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Was Hinduism invented? : Britons, Indians, and colonial construction of religion / Brian K. Pennington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: vi, 249 pagine : illustrazioni; fotografie ; 24 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9780195326000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.5/09/034
Other classification:
  • BL 1201.P4 2005
Contents:
Contents; A Note on Transliteration and Archaisms; 1. Introduction; 2. The Other Without and the Other Within; 3. "Scarcely Less Bloody than Lascivious"; 4. Polymorphic Nature, Polytheistic Culture, and the Orientalist Imaginaire; 5. Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta; 6. Colonial Legacies: Some Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
Summary: Pennington retells the story of Christian's & Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter & to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'.
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Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Magazzino BL 1201.P4 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0030221648

Bibliografia (pagine [225]-239) e indice.

Contents; A Note on Transliteration and Archaisms; 1. Introduction; 2. The Other Without and the Other Within; 3. "Scarcely Less Bloody than Lascivious"; 4. Polymorphic Nature, Polytheistic Culture, and the Orientalist Imaginaire; 5. Constructing Colonial Dharma in Calcutta; 6. Colonial Legacies: Some Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Pennington retells the story of Christian's & Hindu's reception of each other in early 19th century Bengal, giving prominence to the power of the respective worldviews to shape the encounter & to help produce the very religions that colonialism thought it 'discovered'.