Imperial Encounters : : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain / / Peter van der Veer.
Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national...
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van der Veer, Peter, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Imperial Encounters : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain / Peter van der Veer. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2001 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Secularity and Religion -- CHAPTER TWO. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire -- CHAPTER THREE. The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism -- CHAPTER FOUR. Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage -- CHAPTER SIX. Aryan Origins -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. In the process, van der Veer chronicles how these notions developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in relation to gender, race, language, spirituality, and science. Avoiding the pitfalls of both world systems theory and national historiography, this book problematizes oppositions between modern and traditional, secular and religious, progressive and reactionary. It shows that what often are assumed to be opposites are, in fact, profoundly entangled. In doing so, it upsets the convenient fiction that India is the land of eternal religion, existing outside of history, while Britain is the epitome of modern secularity and an agent of history. Van der Veer also accounts for the continuing role of religion in British culture and the strong part religion has played in the development of Indian civil society. This masterly work of scholarship brings into view the effects of the very close encounter between India and Britain--an intimate encounter that defined the character of both nations. 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 15. Sep 2020) Religion and state Great Britain. Religion and state India. Allahabad Pioneer. Aryan-Dravidian divide. British Sunday school. Calvinist churches. Chaitanya. Christian socialism. Eugenics Society. Evangelical Awakening. Ferguson, Adam. Frykenberg, Robert. Gandhi, Mahatma. Gladstone, William. Gurkhas. Hindu Aryanism. Hindustan. Jewish Cabbalism. Kafka. Loretto School. Marx, Karl. Marxist historians. Nonconformists. Pall Mall Gazette. Punjabi Sikhs. class differences. hatha yoga. invasion myth. nasal index. radical mysticism. sindhu. RELIGION / Hinduism / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400831081?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400831081 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400831081.jpg |
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van der Veer, Peter, van der Veer, Peter, Imperial Encounters : Religion and Modernity in India and Britain / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Secularity and Religion -- CHAPTER TWO. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire -- CHAPTER THREE. The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism -- CHAPTER FOUR. Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage -- CHAPTER SIX. Aryan Origins -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Secularity and Religion -- CHAPTER TWO. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire -- CHAPTER THREE. The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism -- CHAPTER FOUR. Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage -- CHAPTER SIX. Aryan Origins -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Secularity and Religion -- CHAPTER TWO. The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire -- CHAPTER THREE. The Spirits of the Age: Spiritualism and Political Radicalism -- CHAPTER FOUR. Moral Muscle: Masculinity and Its Religious Uses -- CHAPTER FIVE. Monumental Texts: Orientalism and the Critical Edition of India's National Heritage -- CHAPTER SIX. Aryan Origins -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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