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

By Richard King

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2001
ISBN
0415202582, 9780415202589
LCC
BL2203 .K56 1999
Open Library ID
OL383830M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
944 kB (966775 bytes)
Pages
296\297
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.

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