Religion, Language, and Power (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Green, Nile; Searle-Chatterjee, Mary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using an approach that is both comparative and historical, and relying upon case studies ranging from China and Iran to India, Britain, America and Kurdistan, the authors of this volume treat religions as discourses that are the products of a particular moment in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135892869
• Artikelnr.: 38259220

Autorenporträt

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