Imperial Encounters (eBook)

Religion and Modernity in India and Britain

Peter van der Veer (Autor)

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2020
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3108-1 (ISBN)

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Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. In the process, van der Veer chronicles how these notions developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in relation to gender, race, language, spirituality, and science. Avoiding the pitfalls of both world systems theory and national historiography, this book problematizes oppositions between modern and traditional, secular and religious, progressive and reactionary. It shows that what often are assumed to be opposites are, in fact, profoundly entangled. In doing so, it upsets the convenient fiction that India is the land of eternal religion, existing outside of history, while Britain is the epitome of modern secularity and an agent of history. Van der Veer also accounts for the continuing role of religion in British culture and the strong part religion has played in the development of Indian civil society. This masterly work of scholarship brings into view the effects of the very close encounter between India and Britain--an intimate encounter that defined the character of both nations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Allahabad Pioneer • Annie Besant • anti-catholicism • Antinomianism • Arjun Appadurai • aryan • Aryan-Dravidian divide • aryan race • arya samaj • Bal Gangadhar Tilak • Benedict Anderson • Bible Society • Brahmin • Brahmo Samaj • British Empire • British nationalism • British Sunday school • Buddhism • Calvinist churches • Cambridge University Press • caste • Caste system in India • Catholic Church • Chaitanya • Charles Darwin • Christian • Christianity • Christian Mission • Christian socialism • Christian theology • Civilization • class differences • Colonialism • Comparative Religion • Criticism • Culture of India • Dayananda Saraswati • Deism • Edward Said • effeminacy • Eugenics • Eugenics Society • Evangelical Awakening • evangelicalism • Ferguson, Adam • Frykenberg, Robert • Gandhi, Mahatma • Gladstone, William • Gurkhas • Hatha Yoga • Hindu • Hindu Aryanism • Hinduism • Hindu nationalism • Hindustan • Historical Vedic religion • Ideology • Idolatry • imperialism • Indian Nationalism • Indian Philosophy • Indian religions • Institution • invasion myth • James Mill • Jewish Cabbalism • John Stuart Mill • Kafka • Loretto School • Mahatma Gandhi • Marxist historians • Marx, Karl • Masculinity • Metropole • Missionary • Modernity • Morality • Muscular Christianity • narrative • nasal index • national identity • Nationalization • nation state • Natural Religion • Nonconformists • of education • Orientalism • Pall Mall Gazette • Philology • Philosophy • Phrenology • political radicalism • Politics • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • Public sphere • Punjabi Sikhs • Racism • radical mysticism • Ramakrishna Mission • Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh • Religion • Religious education • Religious Studies • Sanskrit • scientific racism • Secularism • Secularity • Secularization • separation of church and state • Sexual Desire (book) • sindhu • Spiritualism • Spirituality • Sri Aurobindo • State Religion • Superiority (short story) • supremacism • Swami Vivekananda • Talal Asad • Theosophy • The Salvation Army • Thomas Babington Macaulay • treatise • Universalism • vedas • Victorian Era • Wissenschaft • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3108-3 / 1400831083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3108-1 / 9781400831081