LEADER 04650nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910788369603321 005 20211012024531.0 010 $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 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 $a9910788369603321 996 $aThe birth of orientalism$93840573 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01267nam2-2200421li-450 001 990000857500203316 005 20240313134103.0 010 $a0-387-94461-3 035 $a0085750 035 $aUSA010085750 035 $a(ALEPH)000085750USA01 035 $a0085750 100 $a20020109d1996----km-y0ITAy01------ba 101 0 $aeng 102 $aUS 105 $a||||||||001yy 200 1 $a<> course in the theory of groups$fDerek J. S. Robinson 205 $a2. ed. 210 $aNew York$cSpringer$d1996 215 $aXVII, 499 p$cill.$d24 cm 225 2 $aGraduate texts in mathematics$v80 410 0$1001990003153470203316$12001$aGraduate texts in mathematics$v80 606 0 $aTeoria dei gruppi$2BNCF 676 $a512.2 700 1$aROBINSON,$bDerek J. S.$040677 801 $aIT$csalbc$gISBD 912 $a990000857500203316 951 $a512.2 ROB 1$b10401 Ing.$c512.2$d00057021 951 $a510 GTM$b41252 Sci.$c510$d00334797 959 $aBK 969 $aSCI 969 $aTEC 979 $aPATTY$b90$c20020109$lUSA01$h1232 979 $c20020403$lUSA01$h1731 979 $aPATRY$b90$c20040406$lUSA01$h1659 979 $aANGELA$b90$c20071009$lUSA01$h1742 996 $aCourse in the theory of groups$9348258 997 $aUNISA