Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the c...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Series/Journal: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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| Further subjects: | B
Comparative Studies
B Translating and interpreting Political aspects (India) History B Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology B Religion Philosophy B Sikhism and politics B Religion B RELIGION / Comparative Religion B Translating and interpreting B Sikhism and politics (India) History |
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| Summary: | Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of ""religion"" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as ""religion"" during the late nineteenth |
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| ISBN: | 023151980X |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7312/mand14724 |