Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"

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Routledge, 3 àÁ.Â. 2013 - 294 ˹éÒ
Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.
 

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changing the subject
1
a genealogy of the idea of the mystical
7
2 Disciplining religion
35
3 Sacred texts hermeneutics and world religions
62
4 Orientalism and Indian religions
82
5 The modern myth of Hinduism
96
Vedānta and the politics of representation
118
7 Orientalism and the discovery of Buddhism
143
Indian religion and the study of mysticism
161
9 Beyond Orientalism? Religion and comparativism in a postcolonial era
187
Notes
219
Bibliography
259
Index
277
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Richard King is Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Early Advaita Ved?nla and Buddhism and Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought.

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