LEADER 04670nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910817635403321 005 20240418023349.0 010 $a1-283-88943-9 010 $a0-8122-0005-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200058 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046982 035 $a(OCoLC)794700616 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576119 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605781 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11371986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605781 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10574902 035 $a(PQKB)11138242 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8339 035 $a(DE-B1597)448967 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936377 035 $a(OCoLC)979881020 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200058 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441678 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576119 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420193 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441678 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046982 100 $a20100203d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe birth of orientalism$b[electronic resource] /$fUrs App 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (569 p.) 225 1 $aEncounters with Asia 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2346-2 311 0 $a0-8122-4261-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures and Tables --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Voltaire's Veda --$tChapter 2. Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's Discoveries --$tChapter 3. Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins --$tChapter 4. De Guignes's Chinese Vedas --$tChapter 5. Ramsay's Ur-Tradition --$tChapter 6. Holwell's Religion of Paradise --$tChapter 7. Anquetil-Duperron's Search for the True Vedas --$tChapter 8. Volney's Revolutions --$tSynoptic List of Protagonists --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aModern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of this protracted genesis, its underlying dynamics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near Eastern cradle of civilization moved toward mother India. Moreover, he shows that some of India's purportedly oldest texts were products of eighteenth-century European authors. Though Western engagement with non-Abrahamic Asian religions reaches back to antiquity and can without exaggeration be called the largest-scale religiocultural encounter in history, it has so far received surprisingly little attention-which is why some of its major features and their role in the birth of modern Orientalism are described here for the first time. The study of Asian documents had a profound impact on Europe's intellectual makeup. Suddenly the Bible had much older competitors from China and India, Sanskrit threatened to replace Hebrew as the world's oldest language, and Judeo-Christianity appeared as a local phenomenon on a dramatically expanded, worldwide canvas of religions and mythologies. Orientalists were called upon as arbiters in a clash that involved neither gold and spices nor colonialism and imperialism but, rather, such fundamental questions as where we come from and who we are: questions of identity that demanded new answers as biblical authority dramatically waned. 410 0$aEncounters with Asia. 606 $aOrientalism$zEurope$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aReligions$xStudy and teaching$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aAsia$xReligion$xStudy and teaching$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$y18th century 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 610 $aPhilology and Linguistics. 615 0$aOrientalism$xHistory 615 0$aReligions$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 676 $a294 700 $aApp$b Urs$f1949-$0647281 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817635403321 996 $aThe birth of orientalism$93916986 997 $aUNINA