Sharada Sugirtharajah

Imagining Hinduism (eBook, PDF)

A Postcolonial Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu 'golden age', the West has nurtured a complex and ambivalent fascination with Hinduism, ranging from romantic admiration to ridicule. At the same time, Hindu discourse has drawn upon Orientalist representations in order to redefine Hindu identity.
As the first comprehensive work to bring postcolonial critique to the study of Hinduism, this is essential reading for those seeking a full understanding of Hinduism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134517206
• Artikelnr.: 42975904

Autorenporträt

Sharada Sugirtharajah lectures in Hindu Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Defining the other Postcolonial criticism as an interrogative
tool About the volume 1. William Jones: Making Hinduism safe Biblical Jones
Gods of Indian and European heathens Primitive monotheism to Biblical
monotheism Hindu texts made secure Hindu chronology through biblical lens
Romantic Jones Discovery of Sanskrit literature East and West -
philosophical affinities Hindu Goddesses and colonial enterprise Juridical
Jones Oriental and colonial pursuits Hindus and their laws Hindu laws -
Sublime and ridiculous Justinian model for Hindu laws Jones and the Pandits
Concluding remarks 2. Max Müller: Mobilizing texts and managing Hinduism
Territorial and intellectual conquest The Veda as an aryan testament The
Veda - celebrated and caricatured Fragile monotheism Restoring, fixing and
privileging the Veda Sanskrit, self-definition and spiritual kith and kin
Aryan theory: implication and appropriation Aryan masculinity and Aryan
past Eulogizing Aryan character Fall from Aryan glory Comparing religions:
Hinduism in relation to christianity Classifying sacred texts Redacting the
sacred books of the East Concluding remarks 3. William Ward's virtuous
Christians and vicious Hindus Negating a tradition Hindu texts: Corrupted
and corrupting Christian monotheism and Hindu God and Goddesses Feminized
Hinduism and muscular christianity Corrupt Hindus Lost in darkness with no
sense of history, time or place Hindu women as hapless victims Concluding
remarks 4. Decrowning Farquhar's Hinduism Classifying the Other
Trivializing texts Hinduism through Western Protestant lens Hindu
'idolatry' and Christian monotheism Hindu indifference and Christian
engagement Hindu myth, Christian truth Linear time, cyclic time
Christianizing Hinduism Concluding remarks 5. Courtly text and courting
Sati Sati as Voluntary Sati as a positive construct Textual warrant:
Resurrecting an eighteenth-century Sanskrit text Two voices framing Sati:
Julia Leslie and Mary Daly Liberating texts: Roop Kanwar's Sati from
Srivaisnava and other textual practices Liberating female texts and voices
Concluding remarks Conclusion Replicating Orientalist constructions New
Orientalists: Fashioning a monolith Hinduism Textualizing Hinduism
Politicizing Hinduism Reframing Hinduism and forging an identity References
Index