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

• Autore: Salmond Noel A (Noel Anthony), <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 p.)
• Disciplina: 294.5/37/092254
• Soggetto topico: Idols and images - India - Worship - History - 19th century; Worship (Hinduism)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Hindu iconoclasts
• ISBN: 1-280-92572-8; 9786610925728; 1-55458-128-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824430803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Editions SR ; ; v. 28.