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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Hinduism in travel and missionary accounts, 1600-1800
- 2. Hinduism as represented by Protestant friends of mission in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- 3. Orientalist models and missionary scholarship
- 4. Hinduism in missionary education and training
- 5. The emergence of a dominant paradigm
- William Carey : a pioneer's journey of exploration
- William Ward's History
- 6. The guardians
- consolidating the paradigm : Duff, Mundy and others
- 7. Hinduism in missionary society periodical literature
- 8. A changing context : some general developments affecting missionary perceptions of Hinduism, 1850-1900
- 9. Critics and commentators on the dominant view, 1850-1900
- 10. Empathy or otherness? : changing evaluations of Hinduism in the nineteenth century
- 11. Gender issues in the construction of Hinduism with special reference to the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1880-1900.