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Orientalism and religion : (Record no. 3173)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 98046343
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0415202574 (hardcover)
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International Standard Book Number 0415202582 (pbk.)
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BL2203
Item number .K56 1999
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 200/.7
Edition number 21
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name King, Richard,
Dates associated with a name 1966-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Orientalism and religion :
Remainder of title postcolonial theory, India and 'the mystic East' /
Statement of responsibility, etc Richard King.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
-- New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Routledge,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1999.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 283 p. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-276) and index.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: Introduction: changing the subject 1 -- 1 The power of definitions: a genealogy of the idea of 'the mystical' 7 -- The problem with definitions - Origins of the term 'mysticism' - -- Medieval notions of the mystical - Modern definitions of -- mysticism - The 'mystical' versus the 'rational'- 'Mysticism' -- and the construction of modern philosophy - Silencing the -- Orient: the absence of 'the mystical' in histories of -- philosophy -- 2 Disciplining religion 35 -- Christian theology and the category of 'religion' - Secularism -- and the 'iatrogenic' effect of studying religion - The -- Enlightenment roots of religious studies - Modelling -- religious studies: theology or 'cultural studies' -- 3 Sacred texts, hermeneutics and world religions 62 -- Textualism and the modern concept of 'world religions' - -- Gadamer and hermeneutics: exploding the myth of -- objectivity - Hermeneutics and cultural isolationism - Self- -- reflexivity and ideology -- 4 Orientalism and Indian religions 82 -- Orientalism and the quest for a postcolonial discourse - -- Orientalism and Indology - The inevitability of -- 'Orientalism'? -- 5 The modern myth of 'Hinduism' 96 -- The myth of homogeneity and the modern myth of 'Hinduism' - -- Christianity, textualism and the construction of 'Hinduism' - -- The status of the term 'Hinduism' - The relevance of -- feminism to the Orientalist debate -- 6 'Mystic Hinduism': Vedanta and the politics of representation 118 -- The 'discovery' of Veddnta as the central theology of Hinduism -- - Romanticism and the debate about pantheism - Orientalist -- interest in Vedanta - Neo- Vedanta and the perennial -- philosophy -- 7 Orientalism and the discovery of 'Buddhism' 143 -- The European discovery of 'Buddhism' - Intercultural mimesis -- and the localproduction of meaning -- 8 The politics of privatization: Indian religion and the study of -- mysticism 161 -- The comparative study of mysticism - The constructivist -- response to perennialism - The social location of social -- constructivism - Indian constructivisms: the epistemology of -- enlightenment -- 9 Beyond Orientalism? Religion and comparativism in a -- postcolonial era 187 -- Postcolonialism and the 'Subaltern Studies' project - Mimesis, -- hybridity and the ambivalence of colonial discourse - The -- mutual imbrication of religion, culture andpower.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Religions
General subdivision Study and teaching.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy, Indic
General subdivision Study and teaching.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name India
General subdivision Religion
-- Study and teaching.
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