Was Hinduism Invented? : Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

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24x15cm, vi,249 pp "The appearance of "religion" as a category describing a set of practices and beliefs allegedly an aspect of all cultures dates only from the modern period, emerging as Europe expanded trade abroad and established its first colonial relations in the 17th and 18th centuries. The invention of Hinduism can be seen in the encounter between modernity's greatest colonial power, Britain, and the jewel of her imperial crown, India. This encounter was deeply shaded by the articulation and development of the concept of "religion," and it produced the now common idea that Hinduism is a religion. The Bengal Presidency, home of Calcutta - the capital of colonial India and center of economic gravity in the eastern hemisphere - emerged as the locus of ongoing and direct contact between Indians and colonial officials, journalists, and missionaries. 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.." - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

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Titolo
Was Hinduism Invented? : Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion
Autore
Pennington, Brian Kemble
Editore
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Anno di pubblicazione
2005
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Indian Colonial History

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Social - Political & Religious Movements, Indian Subcontinent, Economic & Colonial History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Linguistics; Classical Philology; Archaeology, Anthropology & Comparative Religion, Africa; Asia; Latin America

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