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Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion
Pennington, Brian K. (Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Humanities, Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Humanities, Maryville College)
Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion
Pennington, Brian K. (Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Humanities, Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Humanities, Maryville College)
Drawing on a body of literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, this book offers a portrait of the process by which Hinduism came into being. It argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries.
260 pages, numerous plates
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 19, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780195166552 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 260 |
Dimensions | 238 × 162 × 22 mm · 522 g |