Was Hinduism Invented?

Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion

AvBrian K. Pennington

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2007-10-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195326000

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Brian K. Pennington is Associate Professor of Religion at Maryville College in Tennessee.

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The flourishing of new knowledge of India's past by British and European scholars and administrators, the emergence of a post-theological notion of religion based on an comparative paradigm of universal religiousness in the contexts of cultural specificity, an increasingly insistent Protestant mission movement, a secular utilitarian notion of civilization, and a new discourse of Hindu among Indians in India were taking place simultaneously in the early nineteenth century. Brian Pennington has investigated each of these threads and their interwoven complexity and located them within the matrix of the post-colonial academic study of religion. A worthy and worthwhile contribution to understanding a misunderstood past.