Imagined Hinduism :: British Protestant missionary constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900 /

This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of their own roots...

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1. Verfasser: Oddie, Geoffrey A., 1932-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
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Zusammenfassung:This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of their own roots in post-Enlightenment Europe, their Christian conception of religion, the colonial reality of India, and their need to 'know the enemy' in order to spread Christianity more effectively. Drawing upon missionary writings, Geoffrey Oddie shows how the early view of Hinduism as pagan or heathen settled into.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-364) and index.
ISBN:9788132109211
813210921X
1283422166
9781283422161

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