Rethinking Religion in India: The Colonial Construction of Hinduism

ISBN-13: 9780415500029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str.

Esther Bloch

Opis

This study critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.

Recenzje

"[T]hese essays have the merit of making clear the residual Christian theological categories still used in our discipline." - Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University (USA); RELIGION, Volume 41, Issue 4

Spis treści

Part 1: Historical and Empirical Arguments  1. Hindus and Others  2. Hindu Religious Identity with Special Reference to the Origin and Significance of the Term ‘Hinduism’, c. 1787-1947  3. Representing Religion in Colonial India  4. Colonialism and Religion  5. Women, the Freedom Movement, and Sanskrit: Notes on Religion and Colonialism from the Ethnographic Present  Part 2: Theoretical Reflections  6. Colonialism, Hinduism and the Discourse of Religion  7. Who Invented Hinduism? Rethinking Religion in India  8. Orientalism, Postcolonialism and the ‘Construction’ of Religion  9. The Colonial Construction of What?

O autorze

Esther Bloch and Marianne Keppens are Doctoral Researchers at the Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap, Ghent University, Belgium. Rajaram Hegde is Professor in History and Archaeology at Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Local Cultures - a research collaboration between Ghent University and Kuvempu University.