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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-364) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788132109211 813210921X 1283422166 9781283422161 |