Religion and the Specter of the West : : Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation / / Arvind-Pal Mandair.
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 c...
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Mandair, Arvind-Pal, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Religion and the Specter of the West : Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation / Arvind-Pal Mandair. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (536 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Religion Philosophy. Religions History India. Sikhism and politics India History. Translating and interpreting Political aspects India History. RELIGION / Comparative Religion. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231147248 https://doi.org/10.7312/mand14724 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231519809 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231519809/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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