Presents an analysis of the role of a variety of languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Greek, and English, in the making of a religion.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nile Green is Associate Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published over 35 articles in international journals, as well as Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century (Routledge, 2006) and Islam and the Army in Colonial India (Cambridge, 2008). Mary Searle-Chatterjee has published articles in edited collections including 'World Religions' and 'Ethnic Groups': Do these Paradigms Lend themselves to the Cause of Hindu Nationalism?" , as well as chapters in edited collections. Her books include Contextualising Caste, co-edited with Ursula Sharma (Blackwell, 1991; reprinted Rawat, 2003) and Reversible Sex Roles : The Special Case of Benares Sweepers (Pergamon, 1981).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface and Acknowledgments Religion, Language and Power: An Introductory Essay - Nile Green & Mary Searle-Chatterjee Part I: Exporting 'Religion' 1. Dialogues on Religion and Violence at the Parliament of the World's Religions - John Zavos 2. The Making of 'Religion' in Modern China - Francesca Tarocco 3. Reclaiming Mysticism: Anti-Orientalism and the Construction of 'Islamic Sufism' in Postcolonial Egypt - Andreas Christmann Part II: Execrating and Excluding the Other 4. Insider/Outsider Labelling and the Struggle for Power in Early Judaism - Philip S. Alexander 5. Who are the Others? Three Moments in Sanskrit-Based Practice - Jacqueline Suthren Hirst 6. The Continuum of 'Sacred Language' from High to Low Speech in the Middle Iranian (Pahlavi) Zoroastrian Tradition - Alan Williams 7. Articulating Anglicanism: The Church of England and the Language of the 'Other' in the Eighteenth Century - Jeremy Gregory Part III: Struggling for the Self 8. Christianos: Defining the Self in the Acts of the Apostles - Todd Klutz 9. Attributing and Rejecting the Label 'Hindu' in North India - Mary Searle-Chatterjee 10. Idiom, Genre and the Politics of Self-Description on the Peripheries of Persian - Nile Green Contributors Index
Preface and Acknowledgments Religion, Language and Power: An Introductory Essay - Nile Green & Mary Searle-Chatterjee Part I: Exporting 'Religion' 1. Dialogues on Religion and Violence at the Parliament of the World's Religions - John Zavos 2. The Making of 'Religion' in Modern China - Francesca Tarocco 3. Reclaiming Mysticism: Anti-Orientalism and the Construction of 'Islamic Sufism' in Postcolonial Egypt - Andreas Christmann Part II: Execrating and Excluding the Other 4. Insider/Outsider Labelling and the Struggle for Power in Early Judaism - Philip S. Alexander 5. Who are the Others? Three Moments in Sanskrit-Based Practice - Jacqueline Suthren Hirst 6. The Continuum of 'Sacred Language' from High to Low Speech in the Middle Iranian (Pahlavi) Zoroastrian Tradition - Alan Williams 7. Articulating Anglicanism: The Church of England and the Language of the 'Other' in the Eighteenth Century - Jeremy Gregory Part III: Struggling for the Self 8. Christianos: Defining the Self in the Acts of the Apostles - Todd Klutz 9. Attributing and Rejecting the Label 'Hindu' in North India - Mary Searle-Chatterjee 10. Idiom, Genre and the Politics of Self-Description on the Peripheries of Persian - Nile Green Contributors Index
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