Religion and the specter of the West : Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation / Arvind-pal S. Mandair.
2009
BL2018.5.P64 M36 2009eb
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Title
Religion and the specter of the West : Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation / Arvind-pal S. Mandair.
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ISBN
9780231519809 (electronic bk.)
023151980X (electronic bk.)
9780231147248 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231147244 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1280599022
9781280599026
9786613628855
6613628859
023151980X (electronic bk.)
9780231147248 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231147244 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1280599022
9781280599026
9786613628855
6613628859
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 516 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.7312/mand14724 doi
Call Number
BL2018.5.P64 M36 2009eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)787845140
Summary
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. "Indian Religions" and Western Thought; 1. Mono-theo-lingualism: Religion, Language, and Subjectivity in Colonial North India; 2. Hegel and the Comparative Imaginary of the West; Part II. Theology as Cultural Translation; 3. Sikhism and the Politics of Religion-Making; 4. Violence, Mysticism, and the Capture of Subjectivity; Part III. Postcolonial Exits; 5. Ideologies of Sacred Sound; 6. Decolonizing Postsecular Theory; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary of Indic Terms; Index.
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Print version: Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh. Religion and the specter of the West. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009
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