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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (536 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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