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Was Hinduism Invented?
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Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion
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Artikel-Nr:
9780195326000
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2007
Seiten:
260
Autor:
Brian K Pennington
Gewicht:
367 g
Format:
234x156x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Brian K. Pennington is Associate Professor of Religion at Maryville College in Tennessee.
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.