Religion, Science, and Empire - Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India

Zusatztext This is a remarkable book which greatly expands our knowledge of the processes which went into making British representations of India. It is a formidable achievement. Informationen zum Autor Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University. Klappentext Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities. "This study of the many-faceted systems of classification of South Asian culture and society employed by the British from the 18th century to the present is necessary reading for historians, religionists, political scientists, anthropologists, and ethnographers" --CHOICE Zusammenfassung Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Glossaries Note on Transliteration Foreword by Peter Lake Introduction Chapter One: Religion, Science, and Scientism Chapter Two: Cartography, the Ideal of Science, and the Place of Religion First Interlude: The Dynamics of Comparison and Classification Chapter Three: Christocentric Travel Writing: Dynamics of Comparison and Classification Second Interlude: The Five Modes of Comparison Chapter Four: Humanist Travel Writing: Ascent of Empiricism and the On the Spot Third Interlude: Classification in the Natural Sciences Chapter Five: Categories to Count On: Religion and Caste in the Census Chapter Six: A Raja, a Ghost, and a Tribe: Studies in Ethnology, Folklore, and Religion Chapter Seven: Popularizing Chainpur's Past: Archaeology in Place and in Museums Chapter Eight: Chainpur Today Conclusion Appendices Notes Index ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Gottschalk, Peter (Professor & Chair Gottschalk, Gottschalk Peter
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.11.2012
• EAN: 9780195393019
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539301-9
• Seiten: 416
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, India, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Religion, Hinduism, Colonialism and imperialism