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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783628403321

Autore

Salmond Noel A (Noel Anthony), <1953->

Titolo

Hindu iconoclasts [[electronic resource] ] : Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and nineteenth-century polemics against idolatry / / Noel A. Salmond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-92572-8

9786610925728

1-55458-128-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Editions SR ; ; v. 28

Disciplina

294.5/37/092254

Soggetti

Idols and images - India - Worship - History - 19th century

Worship (Hinduism)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Novel.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Hindu Iconoclasts: An Anomaly?; One: History of Image-Worship in India; Two: Rammohun Roy; Three: Dayananda Sarasvati; Four: Rammohun and Dayananda; Five: Hindu Iconoclasm: Cross-Cultural Dimensions?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists?     Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with European languages, religion, and currents of thought. Dayananda was an itinerant Gujarati ascetic who did not speak English and was not integrated into the culture of the colonizers. Salmond's examination of Dayananda after Rammohun complicates the easy assumption that nineteenth-century Hindu ico