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Religion, Enlightenment and Empire - Jessica Patterson

Religion, Enlightenment and Empire

British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century
Buch | Hardcover
350 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51063-6 (ISBN)
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In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Jessica Patterson's original study situates these Company works on the 'Hindu religion' in the contexts of enlightenment and empire.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original and ancient religion of India. Drawing on what are recognised today as the texts and traditions of Hinduism, these works fed into a booming enlightenment interest in Eastern philosophy. At the same time, the Company's aggressive conquest of Bengal was facing a crisis of legitimacy and many of the prominent political minds of the day were turning their attention to the question of empire. In this original study, Jessica Patterson situates these Company works on the 'Hindu religion' in the twin contexts of enlightenment and empire. In doing so, she uncovers the central role of heterodox religious approaches to Indian religions for enlightenment thought, East India Company policy, and contemporary ideas of empire.

Jessica Patterson is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of enlightenment and empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has published work in History of European Ideas and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Introduction; Part I. Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: 1. European Letters, the Company and Hinduism; 2. John Zephaniah Holwell and the Religion of the Gentoos; 3. Alexander Dow and the Hindoo Shasters; 4. Enlightenment and Empire; Part II. From Scepticism to Orientalism: 5. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Gentoo Antiquity; 6. Charles Wilkins and the Gēētā; 7. William Jones, Vedānta and the 'Permanent Settlement'; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Ideas in Context
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 687 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-316-51063-8 / 1316510638
ISBN-13 978-1-316-51063-6 / 9781316510636
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