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Religion and the specter of the West : (Record no. 16)

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International Standard Book Number 9780231147248 (cloth : alk. paper)
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International Standard Book Number 0231147244 (cloth : alk. paper)
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International Standard Book Number 9780231519809 (ebook)
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International Standard Book Number 023151980X (ebook)
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Classification number BL2018.5.P64
Item number M36 2009
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Classification number 294.6/172
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mandair, Arvind-pal Singh.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Religion and the specter of the West :
Remainder of title Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation /
Statement of responsibility, etc Arvind-pal S. Mandair.
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Title proper/short title Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation
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Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Columbia University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2009.
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Extent xviii, 516 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
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Series statement Insurrections.
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General note Includes glossary.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 1# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction --- Part I. "Indian Religions" and Western Thought. 1. Mono-theo-lingualism: Religion, Language, and Subjectivity in Colonial North India -- 2. Hegel and the Comparative Imaginary of the West --- Part II. Theology as Cultural Translation. 3. Sikhism and the Politics of Religion-Making -- 4. Violence, Mysticism, and the Capture of Subjectivity --- Part III. Postcolonial Exits. 5. Ideologies of Sacred Sound -- 6. Decolonizing Postsecular Theory --- Epilogue.
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Summary, etc Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sikhism and politics
Geographic subdivision India
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Translating and interpreting
General subdivision Political aspects
Geographic subdivision India
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Religions
General subdivision History
Geographic subdivision India.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Religion
General subdivision Philosophy.
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