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Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East "

By Richard King

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
0-415-20257-4, 9780415202572, 9780203006085, 0-415-20258-2, 0-203-00608-9, 0-203-17514-X
LCC
BL2203 .K56 1999
Open Library ID
OL383830M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2071537 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
297\297
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The power of definitions: a genealogy of the idea of 'the mystical' -- Disciplining religion -- Sacred texts, hermeneutics and world religions -- Orientalism and Indian religions -- The modern myth of 'Hinduism' -- 'Mystic Hinduism': Vedanta and the politics of representation -- Orientalism and the discovery of 'Buddhism' -- The politics of privatization: Indian religion and the study of mysticism -- Beyond orientalism? Religion and comparativism in a postcolonial era

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