LEADER 04831oam 2200673I 450 001 9910451200403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-00608-9 010 $a1-134-63235-5 010 $a0-203-15854-7 010 $a1-280-33497-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203006085 035 $a(CKB)1000000000252425 035 $a(EBL)165051 035 $a(OCoLC)56943622 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216338 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173182 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216338 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10214810 035 $a(PQKB)10708563 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165051 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165051 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5001406 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL33497 035 $a(OCoLC)48138849 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000252425 100 $a20180331d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOrientalism and religion $epostcolonial theory, India and 'the mystic East' /$fRichard King 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (291 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-20258-2 311 $a0-415-20257-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-276) and index. 327 $aCover; Orientalism and Religion; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: changing the subject; 1 The power of definitions: a genealogy of the idea of 'the mystical'; 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; Christian theology and the category of 'religion' 327 $aSecularism and the 'iatrogenic' effect of studying religionThe Enlightenment roots of religious studies; Modelling religious studies: theology or 'cultural studies'; 3 Sacred texts, hermeneutics and world religions; 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; Orientalism and the quest for a postcolonial discourse; Orientalism and Indology; The inevitability of 'Orientalism'?; 5 The modern myth of 'Hinduism' 327 $aThe 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': Veda?nta and the politics of representation; The 'discovery' of Veda?nta as the central theology of Hinduism; Romanticism and the debate about pantheism; Orientalist interest in Veda?nta; Neo-Veda?nta and the perennial philosophy; 7 Orientalism and the discovery of 'Buddhism'; The European discovery of 'Buddhism'; Intercultural mimesis and the local production of meaning 327 $a8 The politics of privatization: Indian religion and the study of mysticismThe 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; Postcolonialism and the 'Subaltern Studies' project; Mimesis, hybridity and the ambivalence of colonial discourse; The mutual imbrication of religion, culture and power; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aOrientalism 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. 606 $aReligions$xStudy and teaching 606 $aPhilosophy, Indic$xStudy and teaching 607 $aIndia$xReligion$xStudy and teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReligions$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Indic$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a200/.7 700 $aKing$b Richard$f1966,$0948725 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451200403321 996 $aOrientalism and religion$92144561 997 $aUNINA